 | 1809 - 746 pages
...ordered Gen. Sherbrooke to retire with his corps to its station in the line, leaving Gen. M'Kenzie with a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry,...as an advanced post in the wood,- on the right of, Alberche. which covered our left flank. The The position taken up by the troops at Talavera extended... | |
 | 1809 - 540 pages
...ordered General Sherbrooke toretirewith his corps t" its station in the line, leaving Geneva! Mackenzie with a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry as an advanced post in the wood on the iitli! of Alberche, which covered our KÍ: flank. The position taken up by tti? troops at Talaveia... | |
 | 1809 - 536 pages
...ordered General Sheibrooke to retire with hit corps to its station in the line, leaving General Mackenzie with a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry as an advanced pnst in the wood on the ii°ht of Alberche, which covered-our left flank. The position taken up by... | |
 | 1810 - 1214 pages
...flank was covered by the Alberche, in a wood on the right of which general Mackenzie was stationed, with a division of infantry, and a brigade of cavalry as an advanced post. The right wing consisted entirely of Spanish troops, and stretched from the front «.if the town of... | |
 | 1811 - 858 pages
...cavalry, in the open ground in his rear. When General Sherbrooke was recalled from Casalegas, General Mackenzie was left with, a division of infantry and a brigade of horse as an advanced post near Casa de Salinas, in a wood on the right of the Alberche, which covered... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 732 pages
...General Sherbrooke to retire with his corps to its station in the line, leaving General Mackenzie, with a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry, as an advanced post in the wood on the right of Alberche, which covered our left flank. The position taken up by the troops at Talavera extended rather... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 1102 pages
...ordered general Sherbrooke lo'retire with his corps to its station in the line, leaving gen. M'Kenzie with a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry, as an advanced post in the wood, on the ri<;lit of Alberche, which covered our left flank. The position taken up by the troops at Talavera... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 734 pages
...General Sherbrooke to retire with his corps to its station in the line, leaving General Mackenzie, with a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry, as an advanced post in íhe wood on the right of Alberche, which covered our left flank. The position taken up by the troops... | |
 | 1811 - 854 pages
...cavalry, in the open ground in his rear. When General Sherbrooke was recalled from Casalegas, General Mackenzie was left with a division of infantry and a brigade of horse as an advanced post near Casa de Salinas, in a wood on the right of the Alberche, which covered... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 780 pages
...Sherbrooke was ordered to retire with his corps to its station in the line, leaving General M'Kenzic with a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry, as an advanced post in a wood, on the right of Alberche, which covered the left flank of the British army. The position taken... | |
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The position taken up by the troops at Talavera extended rather more than two miles : the ground was open upon the left, where the British army was stationed, and it was commanded by a height, on which was placed en echelon, as the second line, a division... 
