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History of the Peninsular War, Volume 3 (of 6)
Robert Southey (1774–1843)
Named on the page for Battle of Corunna.
draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.
Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Project Gutenberg.
16 January 1809
Battle of Corunna
CHAPTER XVI.
Surrender of Coruña 3
CHAPTER XVI.
♦SURRENDER OF CORUÑA.♦
CHAPTER XVI.
The enemy meantime failed not to blazon forth their triumphs in this Galician campaign: to represent the battle of Coruña as a victory on their part was a falsehood, which all circumstances, except those of the action itself, tended to confirm; ...
CHAPTER XVI.
Wounded to the heart as we were that an English army should so have retreated, still we knew that wherever our men had been allowed to face the enemy they had beaten them; and that, however the real history of the battle of Coruña might be concealed from the French people, the French army had received a lesson there, which they would remember whenever it might be our fortune to encounter them again.
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