Note 257 — SECTION XXIV: CHAPTER II
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But, as he wrote to Beresford on April 14, ‘I was not very sanguine of the results of the blockade of that place, and had indeed determined not to make it in any strength: and now it is useless to keep anybody on the other side of the Agueda save for food and observation.’ (Dispatches, vii. 457.)