[195] Also some stray squadrons of cavalry which had gone to the rear to get horses in Andalusia (Letter of Frere to Castlereagh in Record Office).
[196] Jourdan, Mémoires, pp. 187-8.
[197] It was composed of the few battalions of the 8th Corps which had not been drafted into the 2nd.
[198] When the Emperor looked at the half-monthly returns of the army, which were forwarded to him as regularly as possible, and which pursued him wheresoever he might go, he must have seen the following statistics—those of Jan. 15 in the French War Office—for the 2nd Corps, taking the gross totals:—
Infantry: Merle 12,119; Mermet 11,810; Delaborde 5,038; Heudelet 6,592: Total 35,559.
Cavalry: Lorges 1,769; Lahoussaye 3,087; Franceschi 2,512: Total 7,368. Artillery and Train 1,468.
Total of the whole corps 44,395. By Jan. 30, it had risen to 45,820.
[199] The state of the cavalry of the 2nd Corps on Jan. 30 gives the following astounding result:—
| Present under Arms. | Absent. | Sick. | |
| Lorges | 809 | 617 | 108 |
| Lahoussaye | 1,130 | 1,400 | 256 |
| Franceschi | 1,120 | 991 | 208 |
| 3,059 | 3,008 | 572 |
The drain under the second column represents mainly the men who had dropped to the rear, from losing their horses or being unable to take them on.