Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...of every commander, officer, and soldier that merited that distinction. Such a publicity produced the happiest effect on the minds of the soldiers, and on those of the natives also.. r The morning after his entry into Lerida, general Suchet had directed the 121st regiment to march by the left bank of the Segre towards Mequinenza. The siege of this fort and that of Lerida were so intimately connected, that two months before the French government had directed them both to be undertaken at the same time. The means of accomplishing this were, however, wanting; and motives that were easy to be appreciated had determined the commander-inchief to begin with the siege of Lerida. As soon as the troops began to approach Mequinenza, as a preliminary he despatched his aid-de-camp, captain Ricard, who was instructed to offer very advantageous terms of capitulation, but they were rejected, although the fall of Lerida must have naturally discouraged the little garrison, by taking away all hopes of being relieved. In the interval between the 16th and 20th of May, the 114th regiment and the 1st of the Vistula, set out from Fraga and Torriente for the purpose of investing Mequinenza: general Musnier was appointed to command the forces and to direct the siege. 'The elevated plateau that supports the Monnegro, and which is traversed by the route that leads from Saragossa to Fraga, by Bujaralos, Penalva, and Candasnos, terminates at the Cinca and the Ebro; it sinks very rapidly as it approaches the banks of those rivers, but an elevated counter-ridge extends not only to the point where they form a junction, but for 600 feet farther down the bank of the combined streams. The little town of Mequinenza, which is shut in between the rocky foot of this ridge and...
