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first day after landing; then traversed two hundred miles of a rough and mountainous country in six days, and reached Paris, a distance of six hundred miles, in less than twenty days. In 1809, on the day after the battle of Talavera, the English General Crawford, fearing that Wellington was hard pressed, marched three thousand men sixty-two miles in twenty-six hours. A Spanish regiment once marched fifty miles in twenty-one hours. The author states that though cavalry, for a single day, will march a greater distance than infantry, for a campaign of several months the infantry will march over the most ground. The cavalry of Murat displayed wonderful activity, and occasionally the English cavalry. In 1803 Wellington's cavalry in India marched sixty miles in thirty-two hours. The march of the English cavalry under Lord Lake, before the battle of Furmchabad, surpasses any achievement of the Romans or the French. He is said to have marched seventy miles in twenty-four hours.