[349] D’Urban’s diary under the 17th April.
[350] Dispatches, vii. 491-2.
[351] Not to be confused with another Burguillos on the Guadalquivir, north of Seville.
[352] Hoghton’s brigade of the 2nd Division, Myers’s and Harvey’s brigades of the 4th Division, Campbell’s brigade of Hamilton’s Portuguese division.
[353] So D’Urban’s diary under May 11th. The loss was over 400 men, of whom 207 were in the 40th, 118 in the 27th, 75 in the 97th, and 38 in the 17th Portuguese. The French lost about 200 men only.
[354] 3/27th, 1/40th, and 97th Foot.
[355] Wellington to Beresford, April 14th: ‘Sir William Erskine did not send a detachment across the Agueda in time, as I had desired him, and the consequence is that the French got their convoy into Ciudad Rodrigo yesterday morning.... It is useless now to keep anybody on the other side of the Agueda.’ Dispatches, vii. 467.
[356] Tomkinson’s (16th Light Dragoons) Diary, April 10th-11th (p. 98).
[357] 14th Light Dragoons and 1st Hussars K.G.L.