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|f_annotation='''MARMONT'S RETREAT [1]. &nbsp;''' English, Country Dance Tune (2/4). &nbsp; A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Marmont's Retreat" probably refers to &nbsp;Marshal [[Wikipedia:Auguste de Marmont|Auguste de Marmont]] (1774-1852) who led the 50,000-man Army of Portugal for Napoleon during the Peninsular War in northern Spain. Marmont was forced to retreat after the Battle of Salamanca, where the French forces were defeated by the Anglo-Portuguese army under Wellington.&nbsp;
|f_printed_sources=Button & Whitaker ('''Twenty Four Country Dances with Figures for the Year 1813'''), 1813; p. 9.
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