[248] Parliamentary Papers, 1309. Return No. 5, p. 9.
[249] The 8th and 22nd, both Alemtejo regiments, were entirely drafted off, and were raised again afresh with recruits in the autumn.
[250] The 2nd and 3rd, both Alemtejo regiments, were never horsed during the whole war, and did foot-service in garrisons of the interior.
[251] In September the 3rd, 5th, 15th, 21st, and 24th had not raised their second battalions. Of these the 5th and 15th were Alemtejo regiments.
[252] Report of Baron Decken, Sept. 13, 1808 (Record Office).
[253] Return of the Portuguese army, Nov. 26 (Record Office).
[254] Beresford to Wellesley, Wellington Supplementary Dispatches, vi. p. 774.
[255] These were the 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 19th of the line, and the 1st, 4th, and 7th cavalry. Of the foot the 1st, 4th, 10th, and 16th were Lisbon regiments, the 7th was named from and belonged to Setubal, the 13th to Peniche, the 19th to Cascaes.
[256] These were the 6th, 9th, 12th, 18th, 21st, and 24th. The 6th and 18th belonged to Oporto, the 9th to Viana, the 12th to Chaves, the 21st to Valenza, the 24th to Braganza.
[257] The same story is told of General Robert Craufurd and his cazadores, in Costello’s Memoirs.