[136] Report of General Laval (commanding-in the trenches this day) to Lannes, in Appendix xxvi, of Belmas, vol. ii. Cf. von Brandt, p. 34.
[137] There is a full account of his death in Legendre, i. 149; that officer was in the room with him, when he and his aide-de-camp, Lalobe, were simultaneously shot through the head as they peered out of a side window where they thought themselves unobserved.
[138] The ceilings in all the better sort of houses were made of vaulted arches, not of beams and boards.
[139] See Cavallero, p. 120, and compare Belmas, ii. 253.
[140] Belmas, ii. 294. Cf. Rogniat and Legendre.
[141] Berthier to Lannes, Paris, Feb. 10.
[142] Belmas, ii. 314, and before.
[143] In Lejeune, i. 169, the reader will find some horrible anecdotes of this explosion.
[144] Lejeune, i. 177.
[145] The ‘Suizos de Aragon,’ of which the unfortunate Fleury had been colonel, had not all perished on Dec. 21.