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The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ich they all so far surpassed the rest of mankind. This is the Conde de Belvidere, a young nobleman, who, on Napoleon's advance in 1808, headed that division of the Spanish army directly opposed to the column that marched under the orders of Marshal Soult.--This division Soult found drawn up in order of battle at Gamonæ, immediately in front of the ancient town of Burgos, which it was its mission to defend. He thought so little of any resistance it was likely to make that he ordered the attacSoult found drawn up in order of battle at Gamonæ, immediately in front of the ancient town of Burgos, which it was its mission to defend. He thought so little of any resistance it was likely to make that he ordered the attack to be made almost without halting, and certainly without dismounting from the post-horse which he was riding — for he had travelled fast to overtake his army, and had found it in presence of the enemy. The effect was instantaneous. The Spaniards, to the number of 20,000, threw away their arms, knapsacks, and everything calculated to impede their flight; broke into a thousand fragments, scattered to all the quarters of the compass, and fled faster than the wild deer of the mountains, Belvide