Excerpt from Supplementary Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, K. G, Vol. 8: Peninsula and South of France; June, 1813, to April, 1814 I have just learnt that there is a road leading upon Villafranca Which shortens the distance four leagues, it being by the great road twelve leagues from this to Villafranca, and only eight by the direct road to Villa franca. The left column of the army is now about a league nearer that direction, I should think. I have got the names of the places through which the road passes, and I am told that the country carts go by it, but that a part of it, called the Puerto de St. Adrian, is very steep and difficult. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.