Excerpt from History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Vol. 3: To Which Are Prefixed Answers to Some Attacks in Robinson's Life of Picton, and in the Quarterly Review; 1812-1814 Operations south of the Tagus - Brolcs and Codrington seek to entrap the governor of Taragona - They fail - Sarzfleld and Villa Campa unite but disperse at the approach of Pannctier and Sevcroli - Suchet's position - Great force of the allies in his front - The younger Soult engages the Spanish cavalry in La Mancha - General Daricau marches with a column towards Valencia - Receives a large convoy and returns to La Mancha - Absurd rumours about the English army rife in the French camp - Some of Lord spies detected Soult is recalled - Gazan assumes the command of the army of the south - Suchet's osition described - Sir John Murray takes the command of the anglo-sicilian troops at A icant Attacks the French post at Alcoy - His want of vigour - He projects a maritime attack on the City of Valencia, but drops the design because Lord \vilham Bentinck recalls some of his troops - Remarks u on his proceedings - Suchet surprises a Spanish division at Yecla, and then advances against 1\ urray - Takes tooo Spanish prisoners in Villcna - Murray takes a osition at Castalla - His advanced guard driven from Biar - Sccond battle of Castalla - Remarxs 16. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.