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shot distance, and in the meanwhile our infantry and more squadrons 
arrived. The French retired then with great rapidity, and the Light 
Division and cavalry followed them. In the battle yesterday and 
the affair this morning at La Lerna (Lurda) with the cavalry of 
the Foreign Legion, the French Army was computed to have lost 
more than 20,000 men prisoners, killed, and hors de combat , and above 
20 cannon. We bivouacked on the ground. 
Pena Yerde. (Penarande). 
Fuentes de Ano. 
Arivolo. 
Puente de Runel, passed the Adoja. 
Passed the Eresena at Puente de Mediano and bivouacked at 
Mojados. 
Bivouacked on the left bank of the Duero at a ford opposite Aster- 
niga. The French had evacuated Yalladolid, and the road to the town. 
Aldea San Miguel. 
Cojeces. (On the Cega). 
Passed the Cega and bivouacked at Remondo. (On the Piron). 
Molino de Tremeroso. (On the Piron). 
Passed the Piron at Puente das Pinas and bivouacked at Los Huertos, 
or Taxyeros. 
Forded the Eresma and bivouacked at El Palacio de Rio Frio, 
within a few miles of Segovia, which layed to our right, and full in 
view. 
Bivouacked at Otero de Horreros. 
Passed the mountains of the Guadarama and bivouacked at the 
village of Guardarama. Rode to the Escorial. It was stripped and 
divested of every description of furniture and ornament. The bare 
walls alone of this immense palace remained and exhibited a melan¬ 
choly appearance. Not a volume remained of an extensive and very 
valuable library, which the French had disposed of by public auction. 
The Portuguese cavalry of the advanced-guard gave way, and, 
retreating suddenly upon the squadrons of the German Brigade of 
Heavy Cavalry at Los Rosas, the French took them unawares ; a great 
number were sabred and taken prisoners, together with three guns of 
Major McDonald’s Troop of Horse Artillery under Captain Dynely. 
Captain Dynely subsequently escaped from the French camp and 
rejoined his Corps. 
The Division passed the river Guadarama at the Puento de Retamar 
and bivouacked at Los Rosas. 
Madrid. Lord Wellington and the advanced troops entered on the 
12tli. The Divisions of Infantry were bivouacked on the skirts of 
the suburbs, but many of the officers had billets in the capital. We 
were quartered (the officers) in the house of a Juramentado or one 
who had taken the oath of allegiance to Joseph Bonaparte, he was a 
General, and had besides entered into the service of the French. 
The garrison in El Buen Retiro surrendered at noon. 
The troops were already drawn up and the ladders prepared for a 
general assault, that would have taken place in the eyes of all Madrid. 
The garrison marched out prisoners of war; there were 2000 men. 
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