[166] The February figures for Victor’s men présents sous les armes are:—

1st Division, Ruffin5,429
3rd Division, Villatte6,376
German Division [deducting one battalion]3,127
Corps-cavalry [two regiments]1,386
Latour-Maubourg’s dragoons2,527
Lasalle’s three regiments1,121
Westphalian Chevaux-Légers487
Artillery of 1st Corps1,523
Leval’s artillery (two batteries)184
Total 22,160

[167] One Hessian battalion was still absent, in garrison at Segovia, so the total of the division was not much over 3,000.

[168] Jourdan’s Mémoires, p. 182.

[169] Apparently the Westphalian Chevaux Légers, which had hitherto been attached to Leval’s German division.

[170] Four more had to be left behind in the fortress.

[171] Jourdan, p. 182.

[172] Rocca, p. 268.

[173] See [pp. 162-3].

[174] The Spanish statements that Cuesta had only 2,200 horse seem disproved by a letter from Cuesta’s camp, Col. D’Urban to Cradock (April 7), to the effect that Cuesta had already rallied, after Medellin, fully 3,000 horse, but only 6,000 or 7,000 foot [Record Office].