[518] D’Urban’s Journal, under Oct. 15.
[519] For the miseries and dangers of life in Rodrigo, see the Memoirs of the Duchesse d’Abrantes. Her letter to Junot, intercepted by Wellington, tells the same tale: it is to be found in D’Urban’s collection of documents.
[520] See Correspondance, vol. xxi. pp. 262, 280, 338, &c.
[521] See Fririon, pp. 57-8.
[523] Ferey’s brigade, which had already faced Craufurd at Bussaco.
[524] According to Fririon, p. 98, the morning state of Nov. 1 showed only 46,591 men effective. But the figures of that officer are always a little lower than what I have found in the official documents.
[525] The first morning note of D’Urban’s diary in November is nearly always ‘more deserters arrived.’
[526] See Wellington to Lord Liverpool, Dispatches, vi. 554.
[527] See especially the longer dispatch of Nov. 3, on pp. 582-3 ibid.