[156] The foundation for most of the stories against Palafox seems to be Lannes’ letter to Napoleon of 19 mars: ‘Ce pauvre misérable prêtait seulement son nom aux moines et aux intrigants.’ I cannot find anywhere the source from which Napier draws his statement that Palafox hid himself in a bomb-proof, and lived ‘in a disgusting state of sensuality,’ shirking all the dangers of the siege (i. 389).
[157] Arteche, iv. 507-8.
[158] There are details in the diary of a citizen of Badajoz in the Vaughan Papers.
[159] For these operations compare Jourdan’s Mémoires, pp. 178-9, and Arteche, v. 228-31.
[160] The cavalry regiment had only 264 sabres: the infantry battalions were Campomayor, Tiradores de Cadiz, Granaderos del General, militia of Cordova, Guadix and Osuna. Only the first-named was an old regular corps.
[161] He had his own original division of the 4th Corps (twelve batts.), Valence’s Poles (six batts.), the 3rd Dutch Hussars (part of his corps-cavalry), the regiment of Polish lancers, and Milhaud’s three regiments, the 12th, 16th and 21st Dragoons: apparently in all 12,744 men.
[162] It seems clear that the 2,000 killed and wounded, given by Jourdan (p. 186) and Victoires et Conquêtes, is merely a rough estimate. Belmas’ figures (i. 69) are still more absurd: he makes the Spaniards lose 9,000 men from an army which did not exceed 16,500 all told, including the rear division of La Peña.
[163] See [pp. 4-5] of this volume.
[164] This is the estimate of Jourdan (Mémoires, p. 181), and exactly agrees with the figures which I give on p. 152.
[165] 26th and 10th Chasseurs and 9th Dragoons; the fourth regiment, the Polish lancers, was with Sebastiani (see [pp. 146-7]).