History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814, vol. 4

CHAPTER I.

[Sidenote: 1810.]

While marshal Beresford followed Soult towards Llerena lord Wellington recommenced the siege of Badajos, but the relation of that operation must be delayed until the transactions which occurred in Spain, during Massena’s invasion of Portugal, have been noticed, for it is not by following one stream of action that a just idea of this war can be obta...