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| | Chapter 36 - Massena |
 | | Massena now pursued Wellington, whose troops were greatly inferior in number, and half of them Portuguese, on whom he could not at this period rely. |
 | | The course of that march might be traced in smoke and ruins, -- Massena's revenge, no doubt, for the patriotic flight of the people, and their careful removal of all provisions; and the stragglers who fell into his hands had either been put to death, or to tortures worse than death. |
 | | Massena himself was disgusted and dispirited: Ney and he quarrelled; and after a few unimportant movements, in which no good fortune attended him, he insisted on his recall. |
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