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 PLAN OF THE FLANK MARCH. 391 was present at the assault. He was at the second ch a p. siege and capture of Badajoz, and was present at ' the assault and escalade of the castle. He was comnianding engineer at the siege and capture of the forts of Salamanca, and at the battle. He was commanding engineer at the capture of ISIadrid, and the lietiro, and also at the siege of Burgos, where he was wounded. At Vittoria he had a horse shot under him. He was wounded at the assault of St Sebastian. He conducted the siege of the castle of St Sebastian as commanding en- gineer. He was at the passage of the Bidassoa, the Nivelle, at the Nive, at the passage of the Adour, the blockade of Bayonne, and the repulse of the sortie. He was at New Orleans, and was with the force despatched to Portugal in 1827.* He had, therefore, a vast experience, connecting his name with a glorious period of England's history ; and the value of this advantage was not, as so often happens, in the least counteracted by failure of energy. On the contrary, Sir John Burgoyne was gifted with a vigour of mind which made him in that respect the equal of those who were young. Furrowed by years, and the sheer labour of great wars, he still showed what mettle there was in the generation of men with which England began the century ; for neither Egypt, nor the retreat to Corunna, nor the cares of Torres Vedras, nor the business of all the great sieges — • Ciudad Kodrigo, Badajoz, Burgos, St Sebastian — nor yet the discomfiture of New Orleans, had been
 * Harl's .Vnny List.