[400] For a most interesting article on these maps, and all that they show, see Mr. T. J. Andrews’s article in the English Historical Review for 1901. The maps, captured at Vittoria, are now in the Library of Queen’s College, Belfast.
[401] Mémoires of Col. Noël, pp. 112-13.
[402] A lively account of this affair may be found in Marbot, ii. 378; details may not be all trustworthy, but the general narrative agrees with Trant’s report, printed in Soriano da Luz, vol. vii, Appendix.
[403] Report of Lambert, Intendant-General, dated Vizeu, Sept. 23.
[404] Wellington to Lord Liverpool, from Lorvão, Sept. 20.
[405] Indeed, an exploring party under Captain Somers Cocks, of the 16th Light Dragoons, had dogged the steps of the detachment, and counted every battalion. See Tomkinson’s Diary, pp. 39-40.
[406] Wellington to Charles Stuart, Sept. 18.
[407] Wellington to Lord Liverpool, Sept. 20.
[408] Ibid., Sept. 20.
[409] Wellington to Stapleton Cotton, Sept. 21.