[15] Suchet’s third division, that of Habert, was lying out in the direction of the Cinca and the Guadalupe, watching lest Blake might make a new sally from Tortosa or Lerida.

[16] The 3rd Corps which had gone down to little over 10,000 men in May 1809, counted on Jan. 1, 1810, the following force:

Division Laval5,348
Division Musnier8,465
Division Habert4,757
Cavalry Brigade2,172
Artillery and Engineers928
Garrisons of Alcañiz, Jaca, Monzon, Saragossa, Tudela3,110
‘Chasseurs des Montagnes’
[permanently embodied Pyrenean National Guards]
1,425
Total26,205

Of these 23,074 were effectives present with colours, the remainder were in hospital or detached.

[17] Cette portion de l’Espagne reste, d’ailleurs, isolée, et sans influence sur le reste de la Péninsule. Imperial Minute of Dec. 1, 1809.

[18] There is only a short note in Dispatch no. 16,004. See [p. 63] of this vol.

[19] See St. Cyr to Berthier, March 6, 1809, and St. Cyr’s Memoirs, p. 130.

[20] It may be found printed in full in the Appendix to the narrative of the siege of Gerona in Belmas’s Sieges, vol. ii. pp. 660-1.

[21] 3,116 bayonets and two squadrons of Italian light horse by the return of May 15. The Neapolitans were bad troops, deserting whenever it was safe to do so.

[22] See vol. i. pp. 317-29.