[122] See Wellington to Beresford, Dispatches, vii. p. 344.

[123] Wellington to Beresford, Dispatches, vii. p. 346.

[124] Memoirs of George Simmons of the 95th, p. 137.

[125] From the Memoirs of Donaldson of the 94th, p. 104. Passing through Porto de Mos on September 29, 1910, I thought that I would try to discover whether any memory of this horrid tragedy survived. The sacristan, of whom I made inquiries, at once took me to a ruined chamber to the left of the church, and told me that 200 people had been burned there in the ‘time of the French.’ A new sacristy had been built to replace it in 1814, the chamber being held accursed.

[126] See Chapter II above, [p. 60], and Wellington, Dispatches, vii. 350-1.

[127] See pp. [57-8] above.

[128] Correspondance, no. 17,531. ‘Le siège de Cadix n’aurait pas couru les chances qu’il vient de courir si, en partant pour l’Estrémadure, le duc de Dalmatie avait mis le corps du général Sebastiani et la division Godinot sous les ordres du Maréchal duc de Bellune [Victor] ... il aurait alors eu trois fois plus de troupes qu’il n’en aurait fallu.’

[129] ‘Soult vient de me faire une grande sottise: il aurait dû laisser à Victor le commandement de toutes les troupes d’Andalousie. Il ne l’a pas fait, de peur que Victor ne fût aussi grand que lui.’ Foy’s interview with Napoleon in his Vie Militaire, p. 140.

[130] See above, [p. 33].

[131] See above, [p. 31].