FOOTNOTES:
[1] In a recent number of the “Quarterly Review,” the writer of an article upon the correspondence of Louis the XVIII. quotes me as saying that Massena had one hundred and thirty-five thousand men under his orders, as if he had invaded Portugal with an army of that amount, whereas I have expressly said that he invaded Portugal with sixty-five thousand, the rest being extended as far as Biscay. The assertion of the Reviewer is therefore essentially false with the appearance of truth. The same writer, while rebuking the Editor of the Correspondence for ignorance, asserts, that the battle of Busaco was fought between the 9th of October and the 5th of November! It was fought on the 27th of September.
Another writer in the same No. treating of Professor Drumann’s work, speaks of “following an impulse which is from behind,” a figure of speech which must appear singularly felicitous to those who have watched a puppy dog chasing his own tail; but your Quarterly Reviewers are your only men for accuracy of fact and expression!
[2] These numbers are somewhat below those I have assigned to the French army; my calculation was made from the imperial muster-rolls, but the difference may be easily accounted for by the length of time which elapsed when marshal Jourdan wrote this letter. His numbers are evidently from memory, and probably he did not mean to include the king’s guards and Spaniards.
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Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Some occurrences of upper-case titles (such as Lord, Sir, General) have been made lower-case for consistency.
To save space in the wide tables in Appendix Notes XVIII and XIX, the headings ‘Hospital.’ ‘Cavalry.’ and ‘Artillery.’ have been abbreviated to ‘Hosp.’ ‘Cav.’ and ‘Art.’.
To save space in a table in Note XIX the sentence ‘These guns arrived after the battle.’ has been moved from the right of the number ‘8’ to the left of it.
In those sections of the Appendix that are French documents, incorrect grammar, spelling and accents have been left unchanged.
In notes XVIII-XXII of the Appendix some of the printed totals are incorrect; these have been left as printed.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg iii:] The anchor for the first Footnote was missing; it has been placed at the end of the paragraph “... shall now learn.”
[Pg vii:] ‘2º.’ inserted in front of ‘Battle of Busaco.’.
[Pg xlii:] ‘have been mistated’ replaced by ‘have been misstated’.
[Pg lxiv:] ‘for tho letter’ replaced by ‘for the letter’.
[Pg lxxiv:] ‘be here meaned’ replaced by ‘be here meant’.
[Pg lxxv:] ‘Holland combated’ replaced by ‘Holland combatted’.
[Pg lxxvii:] ‘in underminig those’ replaced by ‘in undermining those’.
[Pg 20:] ‘Castello’ replaced by ‘Castelo’. Also on pg 338 and pg 521.
[Pg 37:] ‘instead of faling’ replaced by ‘instead of falling’.
[Pg 72:] ‘to war down’ replaced by ‘to wear down’.
[Pg 100:] ‘Appendix No. 1, Section 1.’ replaced by ‘Appendix No. 18.’.
[Pg 139:] ‘on the sea-bord’ replaced by ‘on the sea-board’.
[Pg 165:] ‘Ciudad Rodigo road’ replaced by ‘Ciudad Rodrigo road’.
[Pg 196:] ‘from Valladodid in’ replaced by ‘from Valladolid in’.
[Pg 205:] ‘the disputes betwen’ replaced by ‘the disputes between’.
[Pg 214:] ‘the aid-de-camp of’ replaced by ‘the aide-de-camp of’.
[Pg 216:] In the Sidenote: ‘Sarsfield’ replaced by ‘Sarzfield’.
[Pg 228:] In the Sidenote: ‘official re-’ replaced by ‘official report’.
[Pg 238:] ‘the aid-du-camp of’ replaced by ‘the aide-de-camp of’.
[Pg 267:] ‘and pallisaded work’ replaced by ‘and palisaded work’.
[Pg 283:] ‘army of Porugal’ replaced by ‘army of Portugal’.
[Pg 293:] ‘had place at’ replaced by ‘had taken place at’.
[Pg 318:] ‘wanton villany’ replaced by ‘wanton villainy’.
[Pg 340:] ‘the last compaign’ replaced by ‘the last campaign’.
[Pg 398:] ‘the militaay chest’ replaced by ‘the military chest’.
[Pg 399:] ‘the preceedings of’ replaced by ‘the proceedings of’.
[Pg 405:] ‘partisans of the’ replaced by ‘partizans of the’.
[Pg 418:] ‘the Englsh general’ replaced by ‘the English general’.
[Pg 419:] ‘court-martials for’ replaced by ‘courts-martial for’.
[Pg 426:] ‘the multidude, and’ replaced by ‘the multitude, and’.
[Pg 499:] ‘Bilbao, immedately’ replaced by ‘Bilbao, immediately’.
[Pg 564:] ‘retrogade movement’ replaced by ‘retrograde movement’.
[Pg 575:] ‘defensive sytem is’ replaced by ‘defensive system is’.
[Pg 619:] ‘Portugal, Jnne 15’ replaced by ‘Portugal, June 15’.
[Pg 620:] ‘Prisoner’ replaced by ‘Prisonnier’.