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Excerpt from The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Vol. 9: Containing Every Authentic Particular by Which His Extraordinary Character Has Been Formed; With a Concise History of the Events, That Have Occasioned His Elevation, Abdication, and Death; Part II
The firstmovement was demonstratively, though not decisively, in favour of the English. Salamanca was evacuated by the French in the night oflthe l6th ofjune: they left only 600 men in three dif ferent convents, which had been converted into dep�ls. Their fire commanded the bridge over the Tormes. The allies forded theriver on the 17th, and took possession of Salamanca. The joy of the inhabitants was extreme, on seeing themselves af ter three long years of suffering, delivered from a foreign yoke, which is always odious to good ci tizens.
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