[527] Jones, Sieges of the Peninsula, i. p. 54.
[528] Jones, Sieges of the Peninsula, i. p. 57.
[529] This decision was the result of the report of an engineer officer, Lieutenant Forster, who crept up to the edge of the ditch during the night of the 5th-6th, and saw much rubble therein.
[530] Details of the orders for the assault may he found on pp. 62-3 of Jones’s Sieges, vol. i.
[531] 51st Regiment: 3 killed, an officer and 35 men wounded, 3 missing = 42.
85th Regiment: 2 officers and 6 men wounded = 8.
17th Portuguese: 9 killed, 2 officers and 26 men wounded = 37.
Chasseurs Britanniques and Brunswick Oels: 7 wounded.
Engineers: 1 officer mortally wounded. Jones says (i. 65) 12 killed and 90 wounded, but D’Urban gives the number stated above, and the figures of the returns bear him out.
[532] Lamare, p. 193.