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383:, that had been sent to reinforce them, to engage in a running battle. Despite Wellington's criticism of this behaviour on the battlefield, the English general continued to praise Sánchez, as he had done before and would continue to do after this battle. After the battle, Sánchez's troops chased the French troops in their withdraw, taking 105 prisoners.
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February, his men attacked a convoy at Tamames, killing or wounding 28 men of the escort. He then sent the convoy, together with 100 cattle, to the needy Army of the Left at Badajoz. As a result of that action, a French division was sent out to capture him, and against which he
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September, he fought minor actions at Barco de Ávila, Valdecasas, Muñoz and Alaejos, killing a total of 73 enemy troops and taking 32 horses. At the same time, he was organising the 1st Regiment of Lancers and the Battalion of Castille Cazadores, formed by 1,200 men that he was able to arm,
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Lancers of Castille, they became known as Don
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During the summer of 1811, Sánchez had effectively cut communications between Ciudad
Rodrigo and Salamanca, defeating any body of troops fewer than 400 men. With Ciudad Rodrigo now occupied by the French, Sánchez was able to attack their convoys and in June, at San Muñoz, his 200 horsemen,
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to the frontier of León, to recruit men from the province of
Salamanca, set up his headquarters at Ledesma. There, he joined forces with Sánchez, and was able to raise some 3,000 men, enough to harass Thiébault. That November, the two commanders defeated the enemy forces at the action of
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The following April, with the aim of forcing the French troops to withdraw from around the town of Ciudad
Rodrigo, he organised a series of successful skirmishes which continued harassing the French rearguard as they retreated. His men later attacked a 75-wagon convoy at
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accompanied by 300 foot soldiers attacked a convoy protected by 600 grenadiers, and killing or taking prisoner 360 of them. Although provisions, escorted by a much larger force, managed to reach Ciudad
Rodrigo in July, by the end of August these were again running low.
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Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army, Sánchez's brigade, now formally the 1st Brigade of General España's 3rd Division of General Castaños's 5th Army, participated in the combats leading up to the
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Regiment of Castille Lancers. By the second half of 1810, Sanchez's band numbered 300 to 500 lancers and had become a major cause for concern for
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In another sortie, he led 200 horse through three siege lines, killing some 240 men and destroying their camp. The commanding officer of the Army of the Left,
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