[68] Wellington to Wellesley, from Merida, Sept. 1, 1809.
[69] See the details in Wellesley to Canning, Sept. 2, 1809.
[70] His head quarters moved from Truxillo on the seventeenth, were at La Serena on the twenty-first, and joined the army of La Mancha about October 1.
[71] See the list of Albuquerque’s army in [Appendix no. 2]. There had been twenty-one regular battalions in Cuesta’s army in June. Twenty of these marched off with Eguia, leaving only one (4th Walloon Guards) with Albuquerque.
[72] The only regiments of Blake’s original army that seem to be completely dead in October 1809 are 2nd of Catalonia, Naples, Pontevedra, Compostella. Naples had been drafted into Rey early in 1809. Of the others I can find no details.
[73] The new Galician regiments which appear in the autumn of 1809 are Monforte de Lemos, Voluntarios de la Muerte, La Union, Lovera, Maceda, Morazzo.
[74] For the full muster-roll of Del Parque’s army in October, see Appendix no. 4.
[75] Some small fraction of it reappeared in the campaign of 1809.
[76] One battalion of Majorca, and the Militia battalion of Segovia.
[77] Borbon, Sagunto, and Granaderos de Llerena, 1,053 sabres in October. These regiments had newly rejoined the Estremaduran army from the rear.