[258] For notes on the difficulties and friction caused by clashing pretensions of British and Portuguese seniority in rank, see Wellington Dispatches, vol. iv. pp. 368-81, 394-5, and several other letters to Castlereagh and Beresford.
[259] Largely from the 1/3rd foot. See Wellington Dispatches, vol. iv. p. 463. Other regiments also contributed.
[260] A few British officers had arrived, such as Col. Patrick who commanded the 12th of the line in Silveira’s army.
[261] Some of the muskets sent by the British were in the hands of the Oporto troops, but none had reached the Tras-os-Montes regiments of Silveira’s army.
[262] All this is analysed from the Portuguese historian Da Luz Soriano.
[263] For the local organization and nomenclature of the militia regiments, the reader is referred to the table of the Portuguese army in Appendix II. It will be seen that there were theoretically sixteen regiments in the provinces invaded by Soult, beyond the Douro.
[264] See Mayne, History of the Loyal Lusitanian Legion, p. 231, and Wellington Dispatches, vol. iv. p. 350.
[265] Wellington Dispatches, vol. iv. pp. 389-90 and 478 [June, 1809].
[266] The 12th and 24th regiments—Chaves and Braganza.
[267] Militia of Chaves, Villa Real, Miranda, and Braganza.