We are on 9 November 1808, at a particular location, right between populations and Villafria Gamonal in the province of Burgos, at that very moment, the French army, with its Emperor at the head, goes to make a conquest, the city of Burgos. Napoleon and his boys did Bureba move from the capital, to retake the square on 22 September had lost, by the fierceness of Burgos.
French, obviously was not alone, in addition to his hussars and overalls, accompanied him terrible dragons and Polish lancers, the corps, I, II, III, IV and VI, as well as Imperial Guard and reserve general division of Merle. A total of 20,040 men and 4000 cavalry and 62 artillery pieces.
On the other hand, the English, the men facing the petit bastard as he knew some in the time-was the First Division of the Army Corps of Extremadura, poorly led and poorly represented by Ramon Patino Conde of Belvedere, who happened to be a simple bodyguard to General. Reinforced by the School Battalion and the Provincial Benavente Tuy, along with a small group with 4 pieces of artillery of the Army of Galicia. Holding on and waiting for the appearance of the English army, which should reach the hands of General Blake.
Well, apart from chronological and chronograph data, data that always characterize any detailed description of a battle, however small or forgotten by history books and whatever. But what interests me about this story of war, not just the war itself, I'm interested in many other things that narrate a moment, the little details that make history has been made one way or another, and the bad decisions of bad controls, or the ability to make decisions and set properly attributes of other characters, and then told, is a clear case of what I want right say.
On November 9, 1808, the Count of Belvedere, was the clear order by the more general and veteran experts. That order stated, to defend the Plaza de Burgos conducting a peripheral defense of the city from the nearby hills, awaiting the arrival of the English, but the Count of Belvedere inept decided to do what you came to win and came out with his troops to open countryside, between the towns of Gamonal and Villafria, placing his art in Rubena, being exposed and sold. So when the 10th of November 1808, at the time when the two armies came together in the field of battle, which at an early stage was a clash of armies, became a massacre, a tragedy where the English were massacred in a few minutes, and a little after eleven o'clock, just a few up, fleeing from the streets of Gamonal or sought to flee through the bank of the river Arlanzón.
Imperial Progress was unstoppable at that time, much more knowing that the Count of Belvedere had left the defense of the city in the hands of a population impoverished armed and frightened, like a child abandoned and scared they were. But like all stories, as there is a clueless inept-ours-we have it, there's a hero, you have everything where it should have. This, was none other than Vicente Genaro de Quesada, who that day accidentally he was commander of the battalion which defended his few men in the city, at the entrance and cheering for blood and gold, of chivalry gabacha. He stood with his men, until wounded in his body, exhausted and with the thick sweet taste his own blood in his mouth, he defended his life and his 74 men to the ultimate consequences for his honor and for their eggs-a guy who was dressed by his feet. A guy that when he was completely lost, and with one foot in another neighborhood, I take strength and weakness when the general Bessiers ordered to surrender his sword, this control will ride. This guy knew what he was defending the honor and his wise and showed it to coast almost his life.
But in this story, another character who showed his honor and worth, and its respect to the brave, even our enemies. When a few days later, Napoleon made his entry into the city without triumphalism and sat at the Consulate of the Sea, an individual of his army, General Bessiers, went to the hospital of Blood, where Vicente Genaro de Quesada was torn between life and death, and to assert his honor as a soldier and as a person, it came to that which it had defended sabers against his men and his hat Imperial, handed over his sword, the same as the English military had days earlier refused to hand over the French army.
You see, despite being an open war, blood and machetes, a tough war and death, as are all after all, there are small details like these that show that despite being enemies, in spite of spending each other on the calendar without question. Despite all this, it can be shown that courts do not take away what people are brave and also a uniform and a charge is also honor and respect.
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