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Excerpt from History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, Vol. 2 of 6: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814
On the 24th of July, Foy brought Soult the king's concur rence for the combined operations projected, where upon he repaired to Salamanca, designing to unite the three corps there; but hearing of Victor's first retreat from the Alberche to the Guadarama river, he directed Mortier to march the 28th upon Plasencia by Fuente Roble and Bejar, and placed La Houssaye's and Lorge's dragoons under his command: the remainder of the 2ud corps were to follow whenever N ey, who closed the rear, should be in motion. That efi'ected, he wrote thus 'my urgent desire is that your majesty may not fight a general battle before you are certain of the concentration of all my forces near Plasencia. The most important results will be obtained, if your majesty will abstain from attaching until the moment when a knowledge of my march causes the enemy to retrace his steps, which he must do or he is lost.'
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