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had failed in their duty. This bad press led to a group of cuirassiers belonging to the 1st Army of Spain destroying the printing press of the paper and burning all the copies in the main square of the city. They then destroyed the house of the priest who was commissioned by the Junta to publish the
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out of the city, to assume command of his old division in the fighting which was just about to begin. That fighting never took place—to the
Captain-General's eternal disgrace—for at the last moment he flinched from placing himself within engaging distance of Suchet. But to skulk in the hills many
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However, 14 months later, an officer and five other members of the same corps of cuirassiers appeared at the priest's house demanding he hand over the original documents on which he had based his accusations and, when he was unable to do so, they forced him to walk from
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newspaper, which had a circulation of 1,200, and put out search parties to capture him. The priest was forced to flee to the mountains where, towards the end of that month he was able to reach the
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