[419] Cf. p. 366 and Graham’s Diary, p. 276.
[420] According to Toreño; but Graham, who was present in the camp, calls it rheumatism.
[421] See Nap. Corresp., 14,312 (xvii. 505, 506), and compare with 14,601 (xviii. 141, 142).
[422] Discours prononcé le 25 oct. (Nap. Corresp., xviii. 20, 21).
[423] Those of Marchand and Bisson, forming the old 6th Corps, with which he fought at Jena and Friedland.
[424] Napoleon to Joseph Bonaparte, to Caulaincourt, to Eugène Beauharnais (vols. xvii, xviii of Nap. Corresp.).
[425] The clearest proof which I find in the Napoleon Correspondance of the Emperor’s intention to sweep over the whole Peninsula, with a single rush, is that already in November he was assembling at Bayonne naval officers who were to take charge of the port of Lisbon, and to reorganize the Portuguese fleet. This was a little premature! (See Napoleon to Decrès, Minister of Marine, Nap. Corresp., 14,514, vol. xviii.)
[426] Napoleon to Bessières, Nov. 6: ‘J’ai vu vos dépêches du 5 novembre sur l’existence d’un corps de 24,000 hommes à Burgos. Si cela est, ce ne peut être que 12,000 hommes de l’armée de Castille qui ont évacué Logroño, et qui ne sont pas en cas de faire tête à 3,000 ou 4,000 de vos gens’ (Nap. Corresp., 14,443, xviii. 38).
[427]See [page 396].