[478] Or two vintems Portuguese money.
[479] Or six, and afterwards ten, vintems. See Jones, Lines of Torres Vedras, p. 77.
[480] Jones, p. 79.
[481] Id., p. 107.
[482] Major Jones to Col. Fletcher, the chief engineer, then absent on a visit to Wellingtons head quarters. See Jones, Lines of Torres Vedras, p. 187.
[483] Jones, Lines, p. 26.
[484] Afterwards, when Masséna had arrived, increased to sixteen redoubts with seventy-five guns. See Jones, p. 113.
[485] Jones, Lines, p. 173. ‘An extent of upwards of 2,000 yards on the left has been so cut and blasted along its summit as to give a continuous scarp, everywhere exceeding 10 feet in height, and covered for its whole length by both musketry and cannon.’
[486] By an astonishing blunder the camp of Torres Vedras is placed by Napier in his map (and apparently in his text also) south of the river Zizandre, on the main line of heights, while in reality it was a great tête-du-pont covering the only passage from north to south over the stream and its bogs.
[487] See note to that effect in Jones, p. 21.