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GENERAL LOISON LIVRE SANS COMBAT, IN PORTUGUESE PENSION(PENSIONER'S) LINE ON SPAIN.

Soult made destroy(annul) immediately eighteen remaining artillery, cars and luggage and loads(charges) the wounded persons on horses. At dawn, Soult takes the mountain and saves his(her) army.

All the reports(connections) announced, indeed, that an English army had landed in Lisbon in the course of April. She(it) was strong of 25.000 men(people) and commanded(ordered) by Sir Wellesley, later, Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852 been born, in Dublin, same year as the Emperor and as the Marshal Soult who was for a long time his opponent and who became his friend. It(he) had ended its(his) education in Brussels then, in the Military Academy of Angers where it(he) contracted robust best regards. This French imprint allowed him(her) to understand(include) and to fight(dispute) effectively our leaders in Spain but, we owe him(her) sound intelligent moderation of 1814-1815 and its frequent and effective interventions against resentful Bl¸cher. Wellington, as Soult was at the same moment, a big soldier and a big military Minister; as he it(he) disdained the politicians and defied the unpopularity to obtain the results which he considered essential.

It(he) results from testimonies of the aids - de - camp of the Marshal Soult over whom the marshal took care of himself the passage of his avant-garde on the right bank, the destruction of the bridge, the assembling of boats and the implementation of the device of protection against any possible English landing by the sea. It is at three o'clock in the morning when it(he) has messenger TholossÈ with the general Loison and it(he) granted to take some rest only at the crack of dawn.

The Marshal Soult writes in his memories(reports)...

" The same day early in the morning I had sent the Captain TholossÈ, my aid - de - camp, to the general Loison, whom I believed in operation on Villa Real and in Tras-Os-Montes's province, according to the last orders which I had sent him(her). I was without news of this general since it(he) had reported to me in the date of the 8, its(his) departure for this mission. My aid - de - camp was a bearer of a telegram by which I announced to the general Loison, the evacuation of Opporto and the pension on Amarante. I prescribed to him(her) to take position to Mezaofrio and to Pezo-da-Regoa. in case it(he) would collide with a new too much superior enemy in number and where it(he) would have very powerful motives by preventing(warning) me at once. The Captain de TholossÈ was besides in charge of exposing(explaining) in detail my projects to the general Loison and of insisting in a the most lively way on the execution of the order which he brought. The Captain de TholossÈ found the General Loison returned to Amarante, as his letter of the same day announced it to me. (The bearer of this letter had crossed himself with my aid - de - camp). The general Loison had in front of him, on the left bank of Tamega, assemblings of farmers and militiamen. It(he) was weakly attacked(affected) and showed nevertheless the intention to abandon Amarante. Only mister TholossÈ's authorities obtained from him the promise whom it(he) would cross(spend) there a night. However, this last one counted little on this promise. It(he) did not make a mistake. After his(its,her) return, I received a second letter of the general Loison, dated six o'clock in the evening, by which the general announced me that he left Amarante. This inconvenient and premature movement should have for consequence the loss of the army. The desolation of the bridge cut my line of foreseen operation and my possible pension towards Tras-os-MontËs's province. Even though this line had not been better, it was not possible any more to choose other one of it. It was not up moreover any more to a major general to make(do) such a change of its own initiative and contrary to all the orders which it(he) had received... "

The Marshal Soult continues in his memories(reports)...

" After the pension of Portugal, several persons who had disadvantages to blame itself and whom I saved(arranged) however, looked for an excuse to cover their faults. "

In "NAPOLEON", Jean Tulard writes;

The role of the French marshals would be to clarify, Soult he did want to become, in March, 1809, King of Portugal as did claim him(it,her) Thiebault? What was the exact nature of the plot gone(taken) up against him by Loison, Donadieu etc.... Revealed by Argenton who paid him(it) of the life...