[126] Junot to Berthier, Jan. 1, 1809.
[127] Belmas, ii. 175.
[128] Lacoste to Junot, Jan. 16, in Belmas, ii. 378.
[129] Was this a distorted rumour of the combat of Cacabellos, and the death of General Colbert, the commander of Ney’s corps-cavalry, on Jan. 3?
[130] For the description of these miserable and most insalubrious refuges, see Cavallero, pp. 90-100.
[131] I give the date of San Genis’ death from Arteche, iv. Belmas, on the other hand, puts it on Jan. 26, and Cavallero apparently on Jan. 28, for he says that it was three days before that of Lacoste, who was shot on Feb. 1.
[132] Belmas, ii. 198.
[133] Oddly enough, Belmas places this sortie on Jan. 21, on which day, as Arteche shows, none of the Spanish accounts speak of a sortie, while the latter give at great length details of the fighting on the twenty-third. Probably the Spanish date is the correct one.
[134] Belmas, ii. 203.
[135] Napier (i. 376) calls them ‘Catalonians’: but they were all Aragonese, sent to aid Catalonia in October.