: Vie de Benjamin Franklin écrite par lui-même - Tome 1 Suivie de ses œuvres morales politiques et littéraires by Franklin Benjamin Cast Ra Jean Henri Translator - Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790; Statesmen United States Biography FR Biographie Mémoires Jo

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Lord Wellington's sieges vindicated--Operations in Spain--State of Gallicia--Change of commanders--Bonet's operations in the Asturias--Activity of the Partidas--Their system of operations--Mina captures a large convoy at Arlaban--Bessieres contracts his position--Bonet abandons the Asturias--Santocildes advances into Leon--French dismantle Astorga--Skirmish on the Orvigo--General inefficiency of the Gallicians and Asturians--Operations in the eastern provinces--State of Aragon--State of Catalonia--State of Valencia--Suchet marches against Tortoza--Fails to burn the boat-bridge there--M'Donald remains at Gerona--The Valencians and Catalonians combine operations against Suchet--O'Donnel enters Tortoza--Makes a sally and is repulsed--The Valencians defeated near Uldecona--Operations of the seventh corps--M'Donald reforms the discipline of the troops--Marches with a convoy to Barcelona--Returns to Gerona and dismantles the outworks of that place--O'Donnel's plans--M'Donald marches with a second convoy--Reaches Barcelona and returns to Gerona--Marches with a third convoy--Forces the pass of Ordal--Enters Reus and opens the communications with Suchet 1

O'Donnel withdraws his troops from Falcet and surrounds the seventh corps--M'Donald retires to Lerida--Arranges a new plan with Suchet--Ravages the plains of Urgel and the higher valleys--The people become desperate--O'Donnel cuts the French communication with the Ampurdan--Makes a forced march towards Gerona--Surprises Swartz at Abispal--Takes Filieu and Palamos--Is wounded and returns to Taragona--Campo Verde marches to the Cerda?a--M'Donald enters Solsona--Campo Verde returns--Combat of Cardona--The French retreat to Guisona, and the seventh corps returns to Gerona--M'Donald marches with a fourth convoy to Barcelona--Makes new roads--Advances to Reus--The Spaniards harass his flanks--He forages the Garriga district and joins the third corps--Operations of Suchet--General Laval dies--Operations of the Partidas--Plan of the secret junta to starve Aragon--General Chlopiski defeats Villa Campa--Suchet's difficulties--He assembles the notables of Aragon and reorganizes that province--He defeats and takes general Navarro at Falcet--Bassecour's operations--He is defeated at Uldecona 19

Tortoza--Its governor feeble--The Spaniards outside disputing and negligent--Captain Fane lands at Palamos--Is taken--O'Donnel resigns and is succeeded by Campo Verde--Description of Tortoza--It is invested--A division of the seventh corps placed under Suchet's command--Siege of Tortoza--The place negotiates--Suchet's daring conduct--The governor surrenders--Suchet's activity--Habert takes the fort of Balaguer--M'Donald moves to Reus--Sarsfield defeats and kills Ugenio--M'Donald marches to Lerida--Suchet goes to Zaragoza--The confidence of the Catalans revives--The manner in which the belligerents obtained provisions explained--The Catalans attack Perillo, and Campo Verde endeavours to surprise Monjuic, but is defeated with great loss--Napoleon changes the organisation of the third and seventh Corps--The former becomes the army of Aragon--The latter the army of Catalonia 36

Suchet prepares to besiege Taragona--The power of the Partidas described--Their actions--They are dispersed on the frontier of Aragon--The Valencians fortify Saguntum--Are defeated a second time at Uldecona--Suchet comes to Lerida--M'Donald passes with an escort from them to Barcelona--His troops burn Manresa--Sarsfield harasses his march--Napoleon divides the invasion of Catalonia into two parts--Sinking state of the province--Rovira surprises Fort Fernando de Figueres--Operations which follow that event 52

Suchet's skilful conduct--His error about English finance--Outline of his arrangements for the siege of Taragona--He makes French contracts for the supply of his army--Forages the high valleys and the frontiers of Castile and Valencia--Marches to Taragona--Description of that place--Campo Verde enters the place--Suchet invests it--Convention relative to the sick concluded between St. Cyr and Reding faithfully observed--Sarsfield comes to Momblanch--Skirmish with the Valencians at Amposta and Rapita--Siege of Taragona--Rapita and Momblanch abandoned by Suchet--Taragona reinforced from Valencia--The Olivo stormed--Campo Verde quits Taragona, and Senens de Contreras assumes the chief command--Sarsfield enters the place and takes charge of the Port or lower town--French break ground before the lower town--The Francoli stormed--Campo Verde's plans to succour the place--General Abb? is called to the siege--Sarsfield quits the place--The lower town is stormed--The upper town attacked--Suchet's difficulties increase--Campo Verde comes to the succour of the place, but retires without effecting any thing--Colonel Skerrett arrives in the harbour with a British force--Does not land--Gallant conduct of the Italian soldier Bianchini--The upper town is stormed with dreadful slaughter 70

Suchet marches against Campo Verde--Seizes Villa Nueva de Sitjes and makes fifteen hundred prisoners--Campo Verde retires to Igualada--Suchet goes to Barcelona--A council of war held at Cervera by Campo Verde--It is resolved to abandon the province as a lost country--Confusion ensues--Lacy arrives and assumes the command--Eroles throws himself into Montserrat--Suchet sends detachments to the valley of Congosta and that of Vich, and opens the communication with M'Donald at Figueras--Returns to Reus--Created a marshal--Destroys the works of the lower town of Taragona--Takes Montserrat--Negotiates with Cuesta for an exchange of the French prisoners in the island of Cabrera--Stopped by the interference of Mr. Wellesley--Mischief occasioned by the privateers--Lacy reorganizes the province--Suchet returns to Zaragoza, and chases the Partidas from the frontier of Aragon--Habert defeats the Valencians at Amposta--The Somatenes harass the French forts near Montserrat--Figueras surrenders to M'Donald--Napoleon's clemency--Observations--Operations in Valencia and Murcia 100

State of political affairs--Situation of king Joseph--His disputes with Napoleon--He resigns his crown and quits Spain--The emperor grants him new terms and obliges him to return--Political state of France as regards the war 120

Political state of England with reference to the war--Retrospective view of affairs--Enormous subsidies granted to Spain--The arrogance and rapacity of the juntas encouraged by Mr. Canning--His strange proceedings--Mr. Stuart's abilities and true judgment of affairs shewn--He proceeds to Vienna--State of politics in Germany--He is recalled--The misfortunes of the Spaniards principally owing to Mr. Canning's incapacity--The evil genius of the Peninsula--His conduct at Lisbon--Lord Wellesley's policy totally different from Mr. Canning's--Parties in the cabinet--Lord Wellesley and Mr. Perceval--Character of the latter--His narrow policy--Letters describing the imbecility of the cabinet in 1810 and 1811 131

Political state of Spain--Disputes amongst the leaders--Sir J. Moore's early and just perception of the state of affairs confirmed by lord Wellington's experience--Points of interest affecting England--The reinforcement of the military force--The claims of the princess Carlotta--The prevention of a war with Portugal--The question of the colonies--Cisnero's conduct at Buenos Ayres--Duke of Infantada demanded by Mexico--Proceedings of the English ministers--Governor of Cura?oa--Lord Wellesley proposes a mediation--Mr. Bardaxi's strange assertion--Lord Wellington's judgment on the question--His discernment, sagacity, and wisdom shewn 146

Political state of Portugal--Mr. Villiers' mission expensive and inefficient--Mr. Stuart succeeds him--Finds every thing in confusion--His efforts to restore order successful at first--Cortes proposed by lord Wellesley--Opposed by the regency, by Mr. Stuart, and by lord Wellington--Observations thereon--Changes in the regency--Its partial and weak conduct--Lord Strangford's proceedings at Rio Janeiro only productive of mischief--Mr. Stuart's efforts opposed, and successfully by the Souza faction--Lord Wellington thinks of abandoning the contest--Writes to the prince regent of Portugal--The regency continues to embarrass the English general--Effect of their conduct upon the army--Miserable state of the country--The British cabinet grants a fresh subsidy to Portugal--Lord Wellington complains that he is supplied with only one-sixth of the money necessary to carry on the contest--Minor follies of the regency--The cause of Massena's harshness to the people of Portugal explained--Case of Mascarhe?as--His execution a foul murder--Lord Wellington reduced to the greatest difficulties--He and Mr. Stuart devise a plan to supply the army by trading in grain--Lord Wellington's embarrassments increase--Reasons why he does not abandon Portugal--His plan of campaign 161

Second English siege of Badajos--Means of the allies very scanty--Place invested--San Christoval assaulted--The allies repulsed--Second assault fails likewise--The siege turned into a blockade--Observations 182

General Spencer's operations in Beira--Pack blows up Almeida--Marmont marches by the passes to the Tagus, and Spencer marches to the Alemtejo--Soult and Marmont advance to succour Badajos--The siege is raised, and the allies pass the Guadiana--Lord Wellington's position on the Caya described--Skirmish of cavalry in which the British are defeated--Critical period of the war--French marshals censured for not giving battle--Lord Wellington's firmness--Inactivity of the Spaniards--Blake moves to the Condado de Niebla--He attacks the castle of Niebla--The French armies retire from Badajos, and Soult marches to Andalusia--Succours the castle of Niebla--Blake flies to Ayamonte--Sails for Cadiz, leaving Ballesteros in the Condado--French move against him--He embarks his infantry and sends his cavalry through Portugal to Estremadura--Blake lands at Almeria and joins the Murcian army--Goes to Valencia, and during his absence Soult attacks his army--Rout of Baza--Soult returns to Andalusia--His actions eulogised 195

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