text: " Chagrined by disappointment and fully convinced as Wellington was after his campaign with Cuesta and the Spaniards at Talavera that it was in vain to attempt any thing further with such impediments on the part of the Allies thrown in his way Marlborough retired in the beginning of September to Tirlemont the mineral waters of which had been recommended to him; and in the end of October the troops on both sides went into winter quarters