FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE
FEBRUARY 1808 FRENCH TURN
Napoleon leaves Paris with a small escort and speeds through southern France to face the "sepoy general" recently landed at Bayonne. At Toulouse, Soult continues gathering an army to contest the English landing.
FEBRUARY 1807 ALLIED TURN
English transports crowd the harbor at Bayonne and embark Wellington's army for Portugal, leaving only 5,000 men of the King's German Legion to garrison the city. Whitehall insists the evacuation is due to logistical difficulties and has nothing to do with Napoleon's depature from Paris for southern France.
