[106] By far the larger part of Roca’s division reached Saragossa; the Spanish returns show that 4,500 men joined Palafox, and only 1,500 escaped to Cuenca with the rest of the ‘Army of the Centre.’
[107] Among these were the 1st and 2nd Tiradores de Murcia, the regiment of Florida Blanca, the 3rd and 5th Volunteers of Murcia, and the 3rd Volunteers of Valencia, all of which had arrived too late for Tudela.
[108] To be exact, 756 was the number of paisanos as opposed to tropa in the return of the garrison on Feb. 20. See Arteche, Appendix to vol. iv.
[109] See Cavallero’s criticism of this statement of Rogniat on p. 17 of his interesting little work.
[110] Cavallero, pp. 68-9. Belmas translates the paragraph almost word for word in ii. 144-5 of his work, without acknowledgement.
[111] Cavallero, pp. 81 and 148.
[112] The battalions of Alcañiz, Tauste, and Tiradores de Doyle; the last were at Jaca, and afterwards served with Blake’s army at Maria and Belchite. They are wrongly put in Saragossa, in Arteche, iv. Appendix.
[113] See the remarks in defence of Palafox in Arteche, iv. 332-4.
[114] The 114th, 115th, 116th, 117th, 121st, and 2nd Legion of Reserve were all formed in this way.
[115] These were the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of the Vistula, 44th and 14th of the line, and one battalion each of the 70th and 5th Léger.