Talk:Battle of Tordesillas (1812)

Neutrality of sources?
"With his river defenses outflanked by Foy, Wellington ingeniously shifted his army to the east bank of the Pisuerga.[9] While he held the west bank of the Pisuerga on the 23rd, he defended the east bank on the 25th. Planting his left flank (formerly his right flank) at Valladolid and securing his right flank on a river 20 miles (32 km) upstream, he held a strong position.[10] The baffled Souham pondered the situation for two days until Foy scored another coup.[11]"

It's not clear to me why Wellington's move was ingenious and Souham was baffled. Gates doesn't seem too neutral while other British authors seem more neutral. Here's some other sources: - Checkn8 (talk) 04:24, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=LiBRKDVMifgC&dq=tordesillas&pg=PA153#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * Wellington's reports: https://books.google.com/books?id=YjUFAAAAQAAJ&dq=tordesillas%201812&pg=PT740#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=G4EBAAAAQAAJ&dq=tordesillas%201812&pg=PA516#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=DQY-AAAAcAAJ&dq=tordesillas%201812&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * Napier goes into great detail: https://books.google.com/books?id=R7wRAAAAYAAJ&dq=tordesillas&pg=PA138#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * Souham's report: https://books.google.com/books?id=v4tpAAAAcAAJ&dq=tordesillas%201812&pg=PA149#v=onepage&q&f=false

On first reading this excerpt, neutrality sounds uncertain. However we also have the Brunswickers being surprised and Foy scoring a coup. So I think it is simply that the writer has used descriptive language. That is the case in some portions of the references too. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 00:51, 23 March 2022 (UTC)