Details of the Madrid advance and Retiro capitulation report
Dispatch describes the Portuguese cavalry charge at Majalahonda, losses to gun carriages, and the German cavalry’s stand. It notes the falling back to Alcorcon, the surrender of the Retiro garrison by capitulation, and provisions of the capitulation including arms, baggage, and officers’ swords. It also records later communications from Sir Rowland Hill and General Maitland.
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Naval Carnero
D’urban
Majalhonda
Ma~jalahonda
Captain Macdonald
Majalahonda
Las Rojas
Jonqueires
Puente de Ratamar
Guederama
Ponsonby
Alcorcon
Visconde_ de Barbacena
M.donald
Tare
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Joseph Bonaparte
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Toledo
Aranjuez
Retiro
Astorga
Tordesillas
Nuarber
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Josep G'Danna
Arhive
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DY Harispe
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Ybi
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Thearrison
Ciudad Rodrigo
England
Prince Regent
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Ballasteros
Rowland Hill
Malaga
Laval
Goia
Grazelena
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Magalahonda
Bourgh
Maitland
Siege-era casualty tally from Majalahonda August 1812
A war dispatch lists British, Portuguese, and allied casualties from the Wellington army in the Majalahonda engagement on August 11 1812. It records killed wounded and missing across ranks including cornet lieutenants captains and serjeants with hundreds of rank and file and numerous horses. The report notes heavy losses for all sides and describes a strategic withdrawal and post engagement dispositions in the Cadiz region.
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John Waters
A. A. G. Nimes
Majalahonda
Prragoons
King
German Legion
Cornet Kottisted
Francisco Taxeiro Lobo
Dispatch from Madrid on the War in 1812
From the London Gazette September 14 1812 and a Wellington dispatch dated Madrid August 18 1812 report Joseph Bonaparte retreating from Ocana and marching toward Madrid Guerillas seize Toledo Retiro garrison capitulates Guadalajara surrenders 700 men and remains of the army of Portugal move toward Valladolid Hill and other officers report La Guarena and Ostuna positions Gibraltar road open Bermuda sloop captures Le Bon Genie of Boulogne with sixteen guns and sixty men in a fierce fight three killed sixteen wounded.
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Dortining-street
Earl Bathurst
Marquis of Wellington
Madrid
Joseph Bonaparte
Ocano
Fia
Toledo
EB Medico
Retiro
Guadalajara
Empecinado
Clinton
Portugal
Buar
Santocjides
Gallicia
Rowland Hill
Drduct
la Guarena
Actas
Acodanis
Ostuna
Gibraltar
le Bon Genie
Boulogne
Bermuda
Bermer
Dispatches Arrive From Ca diz Dated August 28 1812
Downing Street reports Major-General Cooke has sent dispatches to the Earl Bathurst from Cadiz dated August 28 1812. The letter discusses Wellington and the enemy’s position opposite the area near Bath and includes decoded content. The message notes preparations and intended communications for strategic movements in the theater.
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Downing Street
Mag D'Oyly
Cal’ Cooke
Wellington
Bath
Paris War News Quiet as Austrians Join French Seventh Corps
Paris papers report no major novelty from the front up to the 11th. Suolensko returns to order as a transit point for French troops. Austrian account notes Emperor Francis allied with Bonaparte, with Prince Schwarzenberg as commander of the French seventh corps facing Russians under Tormasoff and Kamenski.
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Paris
Suolensko
Russia
France
Volhynia
Francis
Bos ‘Haparte
Prince Schwarzenberg
Tormasoff
Kamenski
Armistice rumor disputed as Hull repulsed at Canard
Halifax reports claim an armistice with American forces on the Canadian frontier, but Nova Scotia and Halifax papers deny it. Generals Hull and British defenders are cited in letters of August 1812, noting Hull’s repulses on the Canard and the capture of Michilimackinac by British forces, with praise for private heroism and steadfast garrison defense.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Hull
Sandwich
Lake Huron
Upper Canada
Canard
Fort Michilimacinae
Napoleon
Europe
Quisac
Fort Michilimackinac
North West ‘Company
Roberts
Maid Ts
Tinal
Ambersburgh
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