[647] About 17 officers and 150 men had been drafted into the garrisons of Almeida and Rodrigo.
[648] The 3rd Dragoons left one squadron, 157 men, at Almeida.
[649] The 10th Dragoons, the other regiments of this brigade, 718 strong, had been left at Ciudad Rodrigo under General Gardanne.
[650] About 300 artillerymen left at Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida.
[651] This includes not only the original reserve artillery, park, &c., of the army, but the whole of the artillery of the three corps, which is not distributed among them in the return of March 15, 1811.
[652] In the Portuguese regiments the officers are counted in with the men.
[653] Leith in his report (Wellington, Supplementary Dispatches, vi. 636) gives the above brigading. The Portuguese official list of troops present (given by Soriano da Luz, iii) puts Eben as commanding an imperfect brigade, consisting of the 8th Line only, while the Lusitanian legion is given as a separate force under Lieut.-Col. Grant.
[654] In the Portuguese regiments the officers are counted in with the men.
[655] This figure includes two batteries not present, but detached with Lecor’s division beyond the Mondego. The totals can not be distinguished.
[656] A strange phrase. How could the enemy ‘advance in order to make movement of retreat’?