FOOTNOTES
[1] Save two Dutch and one German regiment of Leval’s division, which had been left behind on garrison duty in Biscay and Old Castile.
[2] This was done by the Emperor’s orders. The cadres of these regiments, called Royal-Étranger and Royal-Napoléon, were formed partly of Frenchmen, partly of Spanish Afrancesados. The rank and file of the first regiment were to be raised from the Swiss and Germans who had served in the old Spanish army: some of them had adhered to the French, others, when taken prisoners in the late campaign, had offered to serve King Joseph. The second regiment was to be composed of native Spaniards. See Correspondance de Napoléon, 14,531.
[3] The 55th, a stray remnant left behind by Dessolles.
[4] Division of Villatte. It had one battalion detached, along with the 26th Chasseurs, at Toledo.
[5] Division of Valence and Sebastiani.
[6] Lasalle’s division (often altered in composition) now consisted of the 10th and 26th Chasseurs, 9th Dragoons and Polish Lancers.
[7] See for all these details Nap. Corresp., 14,609.
[8] Napier misrepresents this move in the strangest way, saying (i. 364) merely that ‘the Duke of Dantzig recrossed the Tagus and took post between Talavera and Plasencia.’ Avila is fifty miles north of these places, and on the other side of the Guadarrama.
[9] Napoleon to Joseph from Valladolid, Jan. 9, Nap. Corresp., 14,671.