Scribbling in the minutes spared from his demanding work with the Commissariat of the Legion, Richardson described a unique historical experience - the long circuitous march in 1835 that eleven British regiments of over forty thousand men took through the Cantabrica Mountains from Bilbao south along the Atlantic coast then directly inland over the mountains to the plains south of Vitoria to rendezvous with the Spanish army.

In this essay, David Beasley folows the route taken by Major Richardson and the British Regiments through modern Spain and describes the adventure.

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