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ID) aL, JaN, 15e) SZ 
LIKUTENANT W. SWABEY, R.H.A., IN THE 
PENINSULA, 
EDITED BY 
COLONEL F. A. WHINYATHS, late RHA. 
(Continued from p. 53, No. 1, Vol. XXT1.), 
Cuaprer II. 
March to join the Army. Attached to the 7th Division. French 
Movements to Victwal Ciudad Rodrigo. Actions of El Boden 
and Aldea de Ponte. 
12th September.—We marched at day-break from Sacavem, and I 
went on to Villa Franca to procure billets, &c. for the troop.! The 
road lay over a country bearing the utmost marks of the hostility of its 
merciless invaders; the villages of Povoa, Alverca, and Alhandra de- 
serted and ruined, houses without windows, doors, or roofs, and the few 
wretched inhabitants worn out with hunger and want. The country 
was interesting to a military eye, on the left the field-works, which had 
been in use before Junot arrived at Lisbon; at Alhandra, the formid- 
able lines stretching across the country to Mafra, not as yet quite 
completed, and with the very many excellent positions in their front, 
are, I hope, impregnable. Many thousands were employed in com- 
pleting these works under their own engineers, the positions are by 
nature very much in their favour, and art has had but little share in 
strengthening them . . . . A bridge is passed here by which 
Masséna’” retreated from Lisbon, and which he in vain attempted to 
destroy. 
There were no works in existence to cover Lisbon when Junot 
occupied it in 1807. “In 1799, accurate plans of the mountain- 
FUENTE GUINALDO, 
: : i August 27th, 1811. 
1 Memo. for Lieut.-Colonel Framingham, Commanding R.A.:— 
“‘ Captain Macdonald’s troop of Horse Artillery to be ordered to be prepared to march as soon 
as possible, and, when ready, they are to join this army. WELLINGTON.” 
2 Prince of Essling and Duke of Rivoli. 
2, VOL, XXII, 
