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LIEUT-GENERAL THOMAS DYNELEY, OB, RA. 
WHILE ON ACTIVE SERVICE 
BETWEEN THE YEARS 1806 AND 1815, 
ARRANGED BY 
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(Continued from p. 455, No. 9, Vol. XXIII). 
Letter XIV. gives a detailed account of the affair at Majalahonda on 
August 11th, 1812, of Captain Dyneley’s capture, march with the French 
army, escape and return to Madrid. 
LETTER XIV. 
(To Mrs. Dynetzy). 
Maprip, August 21st, 1819. 
Long before this reaches you, my dearest mother, I trust you will 
have received my letter of the 18th, telling you I had given “Joey” 
the slip. Before, however, I proceed any further, or attempt to relate 
my adventures, I must beg you will assure yourself, which you have 
my most faithful word to prove, that I am now in high health and 
spirits. This is now the 21st, the third day of my return, and I have 
kept myself confined to my room that I might entirely recover the 
fatigue I have undergone. I shall take you back to the day I last 
wrote, the 9th; very shortly after I had sent my letter off we received 
our order to march at two o’clock in the morning. The troop accord- 
ingly moved forward about two leagues on the Madrid road and halted. 
At the request of the German Colonel! commanding, I accompanied 
him about a league to the front, for the purpose of reconnoitring the 
enemy. As soon as their rear-guard opened fire upon us, we retired 
upon our advance and remained waiting further orders which arrived 
at three p.m., directing us to advance immediately as far as it was safe ; 
we did so until our vedettes were driven in, and then halted in the road 
for the night. 
At daylight next morning, the 11th, we discovered the enemy’s 
cavalry drawn up about half a league in front of us. We advanced 
2 Colonel de Jonquiéres: in the absence of Major-General Bock commanding the allied cavalry, 
vice Sir Stapleton Cotton wounded at Salamanca, he commanded the German Legion heavy cavalry 
brigade.— Kd. 
10, Vou. XXIII. 62 
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