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The Portuguese troops on duty received them on the glacis as they 
marched out of the gate. A French soldier, who was drunk, as he 
came out of the gate, turned suddenly upon the sentinel, who was a 
Portuguese, and, accompanying his exclamation with a motion of both 
his hands which he held up, said aloud, Jamais se rendent Francais a 
telles sortes ?” with a comic expression in his countenance of contempt. 
His language not being understood by the soldier, and the officers 
paid no attention to it, he escaped any ill consequences from his rash- 
i 812 . ness. 
Aug. i8th. The infantry bivouacked at Puente de Retamar. 
» i9fch. El Escorial. We found sufficient room iu the apartments and cor¬ 
ridors to accommodate a Corps of 16,000 men. 
* 28th * Revisited Madrid. 
» 3ist, Yenda de S Rofael. The troops had broken up from El Escorial 
and marched in the direction of Arevalo. 
Sept. 1st. Came up with the Brigade bivouacked at Adenero. 
* 4th. Passed the Adaja, marched through Olmedo and bivouacked at 
Bocigas. 
„ 6th. Repassed the Adaja, marched through Olmedo and bivouacked near 
Hornillios. 
n 6th. Passed the Erema and, crossing the Duero at the ford of Asterniga, 
bivouacked on the right bank of the river. 
» 7 th. The French having evacuated Yalladolid, the troops advanced and 
bivouacked near the town. 
a ioth. Forded the Piscurga and bivouacked at Trigueros. 
» nth. Bivouacked at Duenas. 
* 12 th. Passed the Carrion at the Puente de Villa Muriel and bivouacked. 
p i3th. Repassed the Piscurga and bivouacked near Torquemada. 
p i4th. Bivouacked near Puente de Quintona. 
p 15th. Villa Drigo. 
■ 16th * Passed the Alencon at the bridge of Bunel and bivouacked. 
i i7th. Bivouacked near Burgos. 
„ i8th. The troops completed the investment of the Citadel of Burgos. 
The troops destined to commence operations against the place forded 
the Alencon and bivouacked near Villa Tozo, a small village in 
which Lord Wellington had his head-quarters. The citadel was an 
old castle and had a garrison of more than 2000 men. It was enclosed 
within three distinct circumferences of works, and being situated 
upon a hill elevated above and commanding, within half a cannon shot, 
the whole town and the heights to the west of it, was exceedingly 
strong, and more especially so compared with our means of attack, 
which consisted of a train of three battering guns and the use that 
might be made of the Field Artillery attached to the Divisions. An 
unfinished horn work was assaulted and carried, and a Lieutenant and 
40 men were made prisoners in it, but the troops were repulsed in an 
attack upon the outward line of works of the Citadel with consider¬ 
able loss. Approaches were commenced from the gorge of the horn- 
work and, batteries being opened, the fire was kept up from the 
howitzers and guns of the Field Train and the three 18-pr. battering 
guns. Two breaches were made in the outward works of the place, 
