[116] See the table in Belmas, ii. 381.
[117] These were all detached from Moncey. The Alagon garrison consisted of four battalions of the 2nd Legion of Reserve, 2,500 strong. At Tudela were three battalions of the 121st regiment, 1,800 bayonets.
[118] Morlot’s division was short of the 121st and the 2nd Legion of Reserve, left behind at Alagon and Tudela, and had only nine battalions present.
[119] Moncey to Berthier, Dec. 23.
[120] Cavallero, pp. 89-90.
[121] See vol. i. p. 153.
[122] Belmas calls it a factory (ii. 151), but Palafox in his dispatch gives the name above.
[123] ‘Suizos de Aragon.’
[124] An officer of sappers named Henri, and one of his privates, tried to reopen communication by swimming the river on an ice-cold night. They reached the further bank, but died of exhaustion among the reeds, where their corpses were found next morning: thus the message was never delivered. Belmas, ii. 153.
[125] The two letters may be found in full in the appendices to Belmas, vol. ii.