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Sheet Music for "Marmont's Retreat [1]"Marmont's Retreat [1]SINGLE FIGURE (Each strain repeated) Set & change sides set & back again |: lead down the mid: up again and right and left |: .DOUBLE FIGURE (Tune play'd twice thro' with repeats) Set & change sides set & back again |: lead down the mid: up again and right and left |: . Hands across quite round & back again |: lead down the mid: up again [half?] poussette |: the double triangle |: & turn corners |: .Book: "Twenty Four Country Dances with Figures for the Year 1813", Button & Whitaker, p.9 #1Notes: The Figures by Mr WILSON.The left edge is very fuzzy, and the dance's words there are guesses.Transcription: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>



MARMONT'S RETREAT [1].   English, Country Dance Tune (2/4).   A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Marmont's Retreat" probably refers to  Marshal 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. 


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Printed sources : - Button & Whitaker (Twenty Four Country Dances with Figures for the Year 1813), 1813; p. 9.






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