[20] Beside the twenty battalions given in the Appendix to Arteche, iv, Venegas’s narrative shows that at least two more (Baylen and Navas de Tolosa) were present.
[21] These numbers are probably exact: Jourdan quotes them from his own official report to Berthier of Jan. 20. See his Mémoires, p. 144.
[22] As the wrecks of fifteen or sixteen battalions had surrendered, there seems no reason to doubt the number of standards. But the Spaniards asserted that Victor eked out his trophies, by taking down the old battle-flags of the knights of Santiago from their church in Ucles.
[23] Cf. the Mémoires of Rocca (of the 2nd Hussars, Victor’s corps-cavalry), p. 68, and Schepeler.
[24] Notably the ever-inaccurate Victoires et Conquêtes, and Thiers. The usually-sensible Belmas makes the Spanish prisoners amount to 13,000 men, two thousand more than Venegas ever put in line.
[25] Nap. Corresp., 14,729, from Valladolid, Jan. 16.
[26] ‘Faites donc pendre une douzaine d’individus à Madrid: il n’y manque point de mauvais sujets, et sans cela il n’y aura rien de fait.’ Nap. Corresp., 14,684. Compare Lecestre, Lettres inédites de Napoléon, i. 275, where orders are given that thirty persons, who had already been acquitted by the civil tribunals, should he rearrested, tried again before a court martial, and promptly shot! Napoleon to Joseph, Jan. 16, 1809.
[27] ‘Je préfèrerais que vous prissiez tous les tableaux qui se trouvent dans les maisons confisquées et dans les couvents supprimés, et que vous me fissiez présent d’une cinquantaine de chefs-d’œuvre. Vous sentez qu’il ne faut que de bonnes choses.’ Nap. Corresp., 14,717.
[28] Napoleon to Joseph, Jan. 11, 1809, Nap. Corresp., 14,684.
[29] Almost the same words are found in a dispatch to Mollien of Jan. 24, ‘Aujourd’hui les affaires d’Espagne sont à peu près terminées.’ This was written after the Emperor had returned to Paris.