Identifier: historyofwarinpe04napi (find matches)
Title: History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France : from the year 1807 to the year 1814.
Year: 1828 (1820s)
Authors: Napier, William Francis Patrick, Sir, 1785-1860 Atkinson, F. Buddle, former owner Buddle, M., former owner
Subjects: Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Publisher: London : T. & W. Boone
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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to seize it bya combined operation from Cadiz, Tarifa, Gibraltar,and Los Barios, where Ballesteros had now taken post.This combination was however on too wide a scaleto be adopted in all its parts ; Ballesteros indeed fellon the enemy by surprise at the pass of Ojen, andSkerrett and Copons received orders from generalCampbell to take advantage of this diversion ; butthe former, seeing that his own plan was notadopted to its full extent, would not stir, and theSpaniards after a skirmish of six hours retired.Laval then left fifteen hundred men to observeBallesteros, and placing a detachment at Vejes tocover his right flank, threaded Los Pedragosos andadvanced against Tarifa. This town was scarcely expected by the French tomake any resistance. It was encircled with towers,which were connected by an ancient archery wall,irregular in form without a ditch, and so thin as tooffer no resistance even to field artillery. To thenorth and east, some high ridges flanked, and seemed Tol.4.IIate 7,
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