[538] See pp. [201] and [284] above.
[539] See the above-quoted conversation with Foy, in the latter’s Vie Militaire, p. 109.
[540] See for example those noted in Dispatches, vi. 545, and a whole series copied out in D’Urban’s journal in October and November, 1810.
[541] A most modest estimate, for the returns of sick for the second half of October in a document at the Archives de la Guerre give a total of 10,897 men in hospital.
[542] An allusion to a phrase in one of the captured dispatches.
[543] Wellington to Liverpool, October 27, pp. 545 and 555 of vol. vi.
[544] Fririon’s confidential report to Masséna, night of 8th–9th of November.
[545] Viz. 39th (3 batts.) and 69th (3 batts.) of Marchand’s division at Thomar and Torres Novas, with Loison’s 66th (3 batts.), 82nd (2 batts.), and 26th (3 batts.). It will be remembered that Reynier was, at the same time, minus the 4/47th, sent as escort with Foy to Ciudad Rodrigo.
[546] Delagrave, p. 123 and note.
[547] Londonderry, ii. pp. 51-2.