[545] Compare Victor to Jourdan of May 21, with the account of the combat in Appendix I of Mayne and Lillie’s Lusitanian Legion.
[546] The exact losses of the L. L. L. were—killed, three officers and 103 rank and file; wounded, five officers and 143 rank and file; missing, fifteen rank and file. Of the Idanha militia, Mayne returned the whole as missing next morning.
[547] See Wellesley to Mackenzie, May 21, and also Wellesley to Frere on the same day. Wellington Dispatches, iv. 350-1.
[548] See Jourdan’s Mémoires, p. 190.
[549] A move by which he flattered himself that he would not only ‘inquiéter les Anglais,’ but also ‘dégager le duc de Dalmatie,’ an end which no raid with 8,000 or 10,000 men to Castello Branco could possibly have accomplished. Victor to Jourdan, May 29.
[550] He suggests in a letter of June 8, that Mortier’s corps should be brought up to Plasencia to help him. But this was wholly impracticable.
[551] Victor to Jourdan, from Torremocha, May 24.
[552] Victor to Jourdan, May 29.
[553] Jourdan to Victor, June 1.
[554] Victor to Jourdan, June 8. Oddly enough he was wrong in his statement by two days, for Mayne blew up the bridge on the tenth only.