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AB AL VS. dsu eS) 
OF 
LIEUTENANT W. SWABEY, R.H.A., IN THE 
PENINSULA. 
EDITED BY 
COLONEL F. A. WHINYATHS, late R.H.A. 
(Continued from p. 810, No. 6, Vol. XXII). 
PART IL. 
Cuapter III. 
“D” Troop march to the North. Bull-fights. Truaillo. Cordial 
reception on the march. Toledo. Aranjuez. 
50th August.—Our destination appears now pretty certainly north- 
ward by Medellin! 
The infantry in our rear passed us to-day and marched to Campillo, 
thereby turning us, who were the advance, into the rear guard, as we 
are now marching away from the enemy. 
The news of Colonel Skerrett’s having taken Seville and of the 
raising of the siege of Cadiz is confirmed. d’Hrlon’s corps is to-day 
at Cordova forming a rear guard to the concentrated force of Soult, 
who it appears is bending his course to Valencia if not La Mancha. 
31st August.—Rode out to Azuaga, which we were attracted to visit 
by its always having been the point to which the French head-quarters 
went when we were in this district. There are some fine specimens 
of the early mixture of Moorish and Gothic architecture, and a castle, 
probably Roman. 
The Spanish cavalry were in the place, and to prove the universal 
passion for bull-figbts they had tied one to a stake and were teasing 
him. We had to pass the street and it was agreed that it would not 
look well for English officers to turn, though the Spaniards went no- 
where within his reach. Our danger consisted in being charged, 
which in fact we were, by the furious beast, but still more in having 
our horses thrown down by the cord to which he was fastened. We 
put spurs to our horses and passed him amidst shouts of Vivan los 
Ingleses. 
1 A glance at maps I. and IIT. will shew the line of this march. From Berlanga vid Maguilla to 
Medellin. At that place cross the Guadiana, and then by Truxillo and Javaicejo to Almaraz, 
then cross the Tagus and by the right bank to Talavera. Then recrossing that river, by Toledo 
to the neighbourhood of Aranjuez.i—F.4.W, 
So Olio SII 55 
