[80] This was the 4th battalion of the 2nd of the line, which had joined Reille in the late autumn, and did not form part of his original division as detailed in the Appendix to vol. i. St. Cyr says that it only lost sixty prisoners besides some casualties. Lazan wrote that he took ninety prisoners, and killed or wounded over 200 more Frenchmen.
[81] St. Cyr, Campagne de Catalogne, p. 98.
[82] Regiments of Santa Fé, and 1st of Antequera, three battalions with 3,600 men in November, and probably 3,000 in February.
[83] Swiss Regiment of Beschard, about 2,000 strong, and Majorca Militia [sometimes called ‘Palma’], 600 strong.
[84] Troops from Barcelona under Lecchi came out to replace Pino at Villafranca.
[85] Chabot lost a Neapolitan colonel (Carascosa) and many other prisoners.
[86] St. Cyr says nothing of his own danger, but the incident is given at length by Vacani, iii. 93, who mentions that one of Pino’s aides-de-camp was wounded.
[87] ‘Si nous ne fîmes pas dans cette affaire le nombre de prisonniers que nous eussions dû y faire,’ says St. Cyr, ‘c’est que dans cette journée l’ennemi fit plus usage de ses jambes que de ses armes. Quelques centaines seulement, la plupart blessés, tombèrent entre nos mains’ [Campagne de Catalogne, p. 107].
[88] The details of this cross-march in a badly-surveyed country, where the maps are very deficient, are more easily to be made out from Vacani’s narrative (pp. 95-8) than from St. Cyr’s own account.
[89] St. Cyr (p. 109) has a curious story to the effect that he had failed entirely to find the road, but ultimately discovered it by giving leave to a wounded Spanish officer to return to Tarragona. He was followed at a discreet distance by scouts, who noted the way that he took, and he thus served as a guide of Pino’s division as far as the convent of Santas Cruces.