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Cranston Fine Arts Military Art and Artists Napoleonic Military Art Battle of Burgos |
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The Worst Scrape - Retreat from Burgos October/November 1812 by Chris Collingwood. After a major victory at Salamanca (22 July 1812) Wellington occupied Madrid and then advanced to capture Burgos - unfortunately with insufficient siege equipment he was compelled to retire and forced to experience a harrowing retreat, it was, he said The worst scrape. However, when the campaigning season ended, Spain, south of the Tagus, was free of the French. |
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