Identifier: historyofpeninsu07oman (find matches)
Title: A history of the Peninsular War
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Oman, Charles William Chadwick, Sir, 1860-1946
Subjects: Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ad replaced the 5th, and all thePortuguese were gone. A shifting of the French picket-linecaused a suspicious British artillery officer to shell the sector ofthe enemys posts where he had seen movement. This was atonce answered by a French battery, the infantry followed suit,and a vigorous tiraillade went on for some time, which eachparty suspected to be the preliminary to an attack by the other.So noisy did it grow that Wellington moved the 7th Divisionfrom near the hill of Sainte Barbe toward Arbonne, where itwould be better placed for supporting Barrouillet or Arcangues.As it chanced, Soult noted this movement and took it for thearrival of another division from across the Nive, a theory whichmade him more anxious than ever to get his troops westward,and to fall upon Hill. Since neither party made any attempt toattack, the firing along the front line finally died down—it costthe British about 180 casualties, all in the two Guards brigades of BATTLE OF THE NIVE, DECEMBER 10™ 1813
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1813) HILLS POSITION BEYOND THE NIVE 259 the 1st Division. The French cannot have lost more, and mayhave lost a few less. In the whole four days December 9th-12thit seems likely that Soult lost about 2,300 men on this front—Hope something more like 2,500. Before dusk, satisfied that Wellington was not about to attack,as he had suspected at noon, Soult gave his orders for the nightmarch back to the east bank of the Nive, which he had so longmeditated. It was to be made by all Clausels and DErlonsdivisions—Abbe, Darmagnac, Daricau, Foy, Taupin, andMaransin. Boyer, Leval, and Villattes Reserve alone were lefton the left bank, with orders to get back into the lines of Beyrisand Marrac when they were pressed, but not till then. Meanwhile a few words are necessary to describe what hadbeen going on upon the 10th-llth-12th of December on thefarther bank of the Nive. When Hill, on the morning of the10th, found that he had no enemy left opposite him, he occupiedthe heights which they had ev

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