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ay Jab) SER ek Jee) SS) 
WRITTEN BY 
LIEUT-GENERAL THOMAS DYNELEY, €.B, R.A. 
WHILE ON ACTIVE SERVICE 
BETWEEN THE YEARS 1806 AND 1815, 
ARRANGED BY 
COLONEL F. A. WHINYATES, late R.H.A. 
(Continued from p. 470, No. 10, Vol. XXIIT.). 
Letters XV., XVI. and XVII. give the advance from Madrid for the 
stege of Burgos, the retreat of the army to Salamanca and final return 
to Portugal. 
LETTER XY. 
(To His Sister Dora). 
Camp near Vinta Toro, September 21st, 1812. 
You may suppose, my dear Dora, ] am a little anxious to hear that 
you have heard of my return to the British army. I can safely say 
that, with the exception of a wish I have to see my family and some 
other friends, I have not at present even an inclination to change for 
Old England. I certainly had reason to expect an illness on my return 
after the fatigue and anxiety I had undergone, but, thank God, I have 
never enjoyed better health. The cold weather has set in and I 
shall now do very well. We have had a vast deal of rain lately, but I 
manage to keep it out remarkably well by a tolerable proportion of 
blankets and Mrs. Lyon’s umbrella fastened to the head of my bed. I 
do not expect we shall have much wet this winter. We reached this 
ground yesterday and have only had one day’s halt since we left 
Madrid. I feel the most for the poor horses, after a hard day’s work 
they are obliged to remain in the open air exposed to the cold rains, 
By-the-by, when I say that, I forget our men whose case is still harder ; 
they are obliged to remain out and many of them have not a blanket 
or great coat to cover themselves with. 
His Lordship is again employed besieging ; we invested this place, 
Burgos, on the 19th, and in the evening stormed the outworks. Our 
loss was great, but not so heavy as might have been expected from the 
fire the enemy kept up. I lost one very old friend, Major Pierrepoint. 
73 
di. Vou. XX{iI. 
