[461] This was done on November 11, and not (as Arteche says) on the thirteenth. The proof may be found in the itinerary given by St. Chamans in his Mémoires (p. 110). On the thirteenth the Marshal was already at Canduelas, close to Reynosa.
[462] Nap. Corresp., 14,467 and 14,477. Napoleon to Bessières, Nov. 13 (at two, midnight), and to Milhaud, Nov. 16 (at three, midnight).
[463] These orders will be found in Nap. Corresp., 14,489.
[464] Nap. Corresp., 14,465, 14,488-91, 14,472, 14,482, 14,503, and 14,499 respectively.
[465] For this barefaced robbery see the Sixth Bulletin of the Army of Spain, published at Madrid on December 14, and also Jourdan’s Mémoires, pp. 85, 86; cf. Arteche, iii. 325.
[466] Leith, Nov. 16, from Cabezon de Sal (in the Record Office).
[467] Not Arnedo as in Napier (i. 257).
[468] See letter of General Leith (dated from San Vincente de la Barquera, Nov. 17), in the Record Office.
[469] General Leith to Sir John Moore, from Renedo on Nov. 15 (in the Record Office).
[470] It is from that officer’s dispatches alone that we glean some details of this miserable retreat. There is nothing of the kind in Toreño, Arteche, or any other Spanish authority that I have found.