The French, like ourselves, make no distinction between friends and foes; and that he has not sent them seems, to me, to show that he intends himself to fall back, and to leave the British wounded to the care of their own surgeons, rather than embarrass himself with them." "Yes, I have no doubt that is the case," the officer said.

"It seems, then, that we must have won the day, after all.

That is some comfort, anyhow, and I shall sleep more soundly than I expected.

If we had been beaten, there would have been nothing for it but for the army to fall back again to the lines of Torres Vedras; and Wellington would have had to fight very hard to regain them.

If Massena does fall back, Almeida will have to surrender." "I was inside last time it surrendered," Terence said, "but I managed to make my way out with my regiment, after the explosion." "I wonder whether Massena means to leave us at Ciudad, or to send us on to Salamanca ?" "I should think that he would send us on," Terence replied; "he will not want to have 300 men eating up the stores at Ciudad, besides requiring a certain portion of the garrison to look after them." Terence's ideas proved correct and, without stopping at Ciudad, the convoy of prisoners and wounded continued their march until they arrived at Salamanca.