Alberche

They could see officers on horseback riding towards the old walls, their wives and children walked there, but the troops went on to the Alberche and camped in the cork groves that sloped down to the shallow river.

Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

The skirmishers would go first, the thin line of Riflemen and redcoats wading the Alberche to drive off the sentries and lock up the French Voltigeurs so that they could not blunt the attack of the massed British Battalions which would follow on to the French flank.

Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

The skirmishers would go first, the thin line of Riflemen and redcoats wading the Alberche to drive off the sentries and lock up the French Voltigeurs so that they could not blunt the attack of the massed British Battalions which would follow on to the French flank.

Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

The Alberche ran in a curve to join the River Tagus, and the French were on the inside of the bend.

Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

The Alberche ran in a curve to join the River Tagus, and the French were on the inside of the bend.

Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

They could see officers on horseback riding towards the old walls, their wives and children walked there, but the troops went on to the Alberche and camped in the cork groves that sloped down to the shallow river.

Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

The principal rivers are the Alberche and Tietar, belonging to the basin of the Tagus, and the Tórmes, Trabáncos and Adaja, belonging to that of the

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Mackenzie and Donkin had not yet fallen hack from the Alberche.

The Young Buglers 1867

The next morning at daybreak, the French army quitted its position, and, retiring across the Alberche, formed line of battle there, and awaited the attack, should the English take the offensive.

The Young Buglers 1867

Cuesta, however, believing that the French were retreating in haste, pushed his army across the river Alberche, with the vain idea of defeating them, and entering

The Young Buglers 1867