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The duke afterwards ordered all his horsemen and infantry, of

which there were more than two thousand cavalry and ten thousand

footmen, to assemble by daybreak at the Metauro, a river five

miles distant from Fano, and await him there. He found himself,

therefore, on the last day of December at the Metauro with his

men, and having sent a cavalcade of about two hundred horsemen

before him, he then moved forward the infantry, whom he

accompanied with the rest of the men-at-arms.