diary · by a contemporary

The private journal of F. Seymour Larpent, during the Peninsular war, from 1812 to its close

F. Seymour Larpent (1776–1845), 1853

Named on the page for Battle of Vitoria.

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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.

21 June 1813

Battle of Vitoria

BATTLE OF VITTORIA.
BATTLE OF VITTORIA.

CHAPTER IX.
I HAVE repented staying two days at Vittoria. The consequence has been that I fell in with all the fagged division of the army, and found every hole full of troops, and nothing to eat or drink. Ttie roads were poached up knee-deep with clay, and I have almost knocked up both myself and ray animals. Yesterday I had no dinner, and to-day no breakfast, and the first day I was twelve hours on the road going six leagues to a plaee two leagues beyond Salvatierra ; from thence 1 got in thirteen hours more to Orunzun, eight leagues. There my baggage did not arrive in time, and I went to bed without dinner and without anything except the comforts of a Spanish cottage.

EFFECTS OF THE WAR. 225
I believe King Joseph's gallantry in trying to seduce a young girl at Salvatierra, the night of the battle of Vittoria, was mentioned in a former letter by me. In this valley he performed a moat noble feat : after the dinner given him by his patron and the neighbours, l3

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. 291
We understand here that it was not until three days after the news of the battle of Vittoria arrived that any one durst inform Bonaparte of it This laet battle will very probably be almost entirely concealed from bim. As we are now both in statu qito as to place, this may perhaps be managed ; though the

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