Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi

VISIT TO LONDON. 113
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To the Duke of Dalmatia Napoleon
entrusted the command of the army, when the
defeat of the French at Yittoria had placed
the Peninsula at the mercy of the Duke of
Wellington.
After a series of conflicts, which
covered the British army and its able general
with glory, Soult, finding the cause of his
imperial master hopeless, gave up the contest
and returned to Paris.
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Soult afterwards fought at Waterloo,
but without that distinction which might have
been expected from his old renown. After
this battle, which for ever stamped the fate
of Napoleon, and showed Wellington the
greatest general of the age,
Soult retired to
the country, and lived for some years in seclui