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Chapter III: Section VIII: The Campaign of Sir John Moore

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I. Napoleon at Madrid 473
II. Moore at Salamanca 486
III. Moore’s advance to Sahagun 513
IV. Napoleon’s pursuit of Moore: Sahagun to Astorga 539
V. Soult’s pursuit of Moore: Astorga to Corunna 559
VI. The battle of Corunna 583

APPENDICES

I. Godoy’s Proclamation of Oct. 5, 1806 603
II. The Treaty of Fontainebleau 604
III. Papers relating to the ‘Affair of the Escurial’ 606
IV. Abdication of Charles IV 607
V. The Spanish Army in 1808 607
VI. The first French ‘Army of Spain’ 612
VII. Papers relating to the Treachery at Bayonne 616
VIII. Papers relating to the Capitulation of Baylen 618
IX. Papers relating to the Convention of Cintra 625
X. List of Members of the Central Junta 630
XI. The Spanish Armies, Oct.-Nov. 1808 631
XII. The second French ‘Army of Spain’ 640
XIII. The Army of Sir John Moore, its strength and its losses 646

INDEX 649

MAPS

1. MADRID 60
2. SARAGOSSA 160
3. MEDINA DE RIO SECO 168
4. ANDALUSIA AND BAYLEN 184
5. VIMIERO 249
6. CATALONIA 304
7. NORTHERN SPAIN 384
8. ESPINOSA 413
9. TUDELA 435
10. CORUNNA 584
LARGE MAP OF SPAIN _At end of volume_

PORTRAITS

CHARLES IV _Frontispiece_
MARIA LUISA QUEEN OF SPAIN 17
MANUEL GODOY, PRINCE OF THE PEACE 41

NOTE

The coins on the binding of the book are--the first a half-dollar of the last issue of Charles IV, the second a siege-piece struck at Gerona in 1808. That on the title-page is a peseta struck at Valencia, with a patriotic legend on the reverse, RENUEVA VAL. SU JURAM. SELLADO CON SU SANGRE.

SECTION I

NAPOLEON AND THE SPANISH BOURBONS

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