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A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 5, Oct. 1811-Aug. 31, 1812

Note 133 — SECTION XXXI: CHAPTER II

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Hill’s dispatch has a handsome but ungrammatical testimony to the enemy: ‘the intrepid and admirable way in which the French retreated, the infantry formed in square, and favoured as he was by the nature of the country, of which he knew how to take the fullest advantage, prevented the cavalry alone from effecting anything against him.’

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