Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi

112 PETER PARLEY'S
"' In 1808, Soult, now Duke of Dalmatia,
was entrusted with the command of the army
in Spain, and his first movement was to pursue
the gallant Sir John Moore in his memorable
retreat towards Corunna. Under the
walls of that town he engaged the British
army, but, after a sharp contest, was completely
repulsed. The British general, however, was
killed in the action, and was buried in the
citadel, his corpse wrapped in a military cloak,
and the guns of his enemy paying his funeral
honours. Marshal Soult, with that noble
feeling which can only exist in minds of
true greatness erected a monument to his
memory, near the spot where he so nobly
fell.