Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade

CHAPTER VIII.

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The Army leave Badajos on the 11th of April, and move into quarters near the river Agueda, where they remain, till the 11th of June--Advance towards Salamanca, which, with the exception of three Forts, the enemy had evacuated--The Forts invested--The main bodies of both armies bivouack within a mile and a half of each other, in the vicinity of Monte Rubio and Morisco--The Forts of Salamanca surrender--The main body of the Enemy retire to Tordesillas--Movements of the Army, 153