[420] See Foy’s account of his interview with the Emperor in his Vie Militaire, p. 108.
[421] This unpublished document from the Archives du Ministère de la Guerre seems to have escaped all historians.
[422] These orders are printed in the [Appendix].
[423] So Fririon in his Campagne de Portugal, p. 47. But his enemy Pelet says (Vic. et Conq., xxi. p. 321) that Ney, like Reynier, ‘demanda la bataille à grands cris.’ Cf., for what it is worth, Marbot’s tale, ii. 384.
[424] All this is told at great length in Koch’s Vie de Masséna, vii. p. 192, where the Council of War is described with many details.
[425] Grattan’s Adventures with the 88th, pp. 28-9, and Leith Hay, i. 231.
[426] Masséna’s orders for the battle call Reynier’s attack one on ‘la droite de l’armée ennemie,’ but it was really on the right-centre, Hill and Leith extending for four miles south of the point assailed.
[427] The Mémoires of Lemonnier Delafosse, a captain in the 31st Léger, give an excellent and clear account of its sufferings, see pp. 69-70 of his work.
[428] Grattan’s Adventure with the Connaught Rangers, p. 35.
[429] Picton to Wellington, Supplementary Dispatches, vi. p. 635. I do not know whether Wallace really descended from the famous Sir William, but Craufurd of the Light Division (as his descendant and biographer has pointed out to me) chanced to have a connexion with the Knight of Ellerslie.