[70] St. Cyr, Journal de l’Armée de Catalogne, p. 64.
[71] ‘Il faut passer sur le ventre au corps de troupes en face, quel que soit son nombre.’ St. Cyr, p. 66.
[72] Three battalions of the 4th of the line, and two of the 2nd Light Infantry.
[73] One battalion of the 2nd Light Infantry and one of the 7th of the line.
[74] Three battalions each of the 1st and 6th of the line.
[75] See the account of Cabanes, who was with Milans this day, in his History of the War in Catalonia.
[76] See the narrative of an officer in the division of Lazan, printed by Cabanes as an appendix.
[77] St. Cyr, as any reader of his Mémoires can see, was malicious and sarcastic. But Duhesme has a bad reputation for carelessness and selfishness, and his writings make an even worse impression than those of St. Cyr. Probably the latter’s narrative is fairly correct.
[78] Some of his miqueletes had absconded during the withdrawal from the eastern half of the river.
[79] St. Cyr says twenty-five in his report to Napoleon, but increases the number to fifty in his Mémoires, p. 87.