[215] Tomkinson’s diary, p. 88.
[216] Ney remained quiet at Cortiço and Carapichina this day, but was only ten miles from Celorico, and so may be considered as part of the same body as the 8th Corps.
[217] Noël, Souvenirs militaires, p. 141.
[218] Grattan’s With the Connaught Rangers, 1809-13, p. 58.
[219] The student must he specially warned against Fririon’s figures for French losses. Though he was Masséna’s aide-de-camp, and wrote a quasi-official account of the whole retreat, his numbers are wholly untrustworthy. He states (p. 149) that the 6th Corps only lost 179 killed and wounded between March 1 and March 15. The actual losses were Pombal, 63; Redinha, 227; Casal Novo, at least 55; Foz do Arouce, at least 250 = 600. Similarly he states the loss at Sabugal at 250; the official casualty list sent in to the Marshal gives a total of 750. Fririon, from his position, must have seen, or at least could have seen, these figures.
[220] Dispatch to Berthier, from Maceira, of that date.
[221] Pelet’s Appendice sur la Guerre d’Espagne in Victoires et Conquêtes, 21, p. 336.
[222] Captured at Vittoria, they were long after given to Belfast University.
[223] All these interesting figures come from the diary of Colonel Noël, commanding the artillery of Clausel’s division; see his memoirs, pp. 137 and 146.