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Under Wellington’s Command

CHAPTER 3: Prisoners
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As to rejoining Sir Arthur, it is out of the question; the valley is full of French troops.

Ney has joined Soult, and there are 100,000 Frenchmen between us and our army.

If I had any idea where Wilson is, we might endeavour to join him, for he must be in the same plight as ourselves.

Our only chance, so far as I can see, is to cross their line of communications and to endeavour to join Beresford, who is reported as marching down the frontier from Almeida." "Would you propose to pass through Banos, Colonel ?" Herrara asked.
"The mountains there are almost, if not quite, impassable; but we might get a peasant to guide us." "I don't like going near Banos, Herrara.

The French are almost sure to have left a strong body there, and the chances are against our finding a peasant; for the inhabitants of all the villages, for ten miles round, have almost certainly fled and taken to the hills.
"I think it would be safer to follow along this side of the Sierra, cross the road a few miles above Plasencia, then make for the mountains, and come down on the head of the river Coa.


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