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The Allied army had deployed on the western ridge of the Pelagarcia Valley which ran south from the River Tormes. Wellington kept a large part of his army unseen, but had three of his seven divisions on this high ground with an outpost across the valley at the chapel of Nuestra Señora de la Peña. Marmont ordered General Maximillian Sebastien Foy’s division on his extreme right to go north and attack this outpost, and General Jean Guillaume Thomières’ division on his extreme left to march westwards and turn Wellington’s flank. Instead of concentrating his army he began overextending it.