1811 Sep.br
village one league in Spain, a short distance from Fort Conception & close to the left of L.d Wellington’s position in the battle of the battle of the 5th of Fuentes de Onor we are so crowded, having 2 Reg.ts in about 30 hovels, that I have been obliged to make myself a shade with a blanket, there being no trees near the village several of the frontier towns or rather villages thro’ which we passed are entirely destroyed houses unroofed & churches demolished we marched close by Fort Conception, which is most completely destroyed, having been blown up by L.d W.s orders on the advance of the French to invest Almeida last year it was formerly the Woolwich of Spain had it been besieged, nothing but starvation could have made it surrender it must have been a most beautiful & complete work situated on a very commanding position between Aldea del Obispo & Valdemula & just above the river which separates Spain from Portugal Valdemula which is in Portugal is completely demolished, whilst Aldea del
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