[78] See Wellington to Wellesley, from Badajoz, Oct. 30, 1809.
[79] For Jourdan’s personal views, see his Mémoires, ed. Grouchy, p. 282.
[80] See the table given by Sprünglin on p. 366 of his Mémoires.
[81] Apparently Kellermann had at this moment a battalion each of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Swiss, a battalion of the Garde de Paris, one each of the 12th Léger and 32nd Line, and one or two of the 122nd.
[82] 6th Léger (two batts.), 69th Line (three batts.), and one battalion of voltigeurs réunis.
[83] 39th and 76th of the Line.
[84] Marchand in his dispatch says 1,300 men in all were lost, and a gun; he makes no mention of the eagle. His aide-de-camp, Sprünglin, who has a good account of the battle in his Mémoires (pp. 370-1), gives the total of 1,500. The Spaniards exaggerated the loss to 3,000.
[85] ‘La perte de cette affaire fut entièrement due à la faute que fit le Général Marchand de multiplier ses attaques, et de s’engager par petits paquets. Tout le monde se mêlait de donner son avis, et on remarquait l’absence de M. le Maréchal,’ says Sprünglin in p. 371 of his Mémoires.
[86] Del Parque’s demands had begun as early as the end of September, see Wellington to Castlereagh, Badajoz, Sept. 29, Dispatches, v. 200-1, and cf. Wellington to Forjaz, Oct. 15, ibid. 223.
[87] Wellington to Beresford, Nov. 16, 1809.