[562] The regiments which received a battalion were the 40th, 64th, 88th, 100th, 103rd, 21st and 28th Léger of the 5th Corps, and the 16th Léger. The cavalry regiments which received squadrons were the 4th, 14th, 26th Dragoons.
[563] The 4th batts. of the 8th, 54th, 63rd, 24th, 45th, 94th, 95th, and 96th Line, and the 9th and 27th Léger. There were also odd squadrons of the 1st, 2nd, and 9th Dragoons.
[564] I follow Scovell, as an eye-witness, when he says that the bulk of the infantry crossed by the fords. Napier says they went over the flying-bridge below Badajoz (iii. p. 313). But Moyle Sherer (p. 167) says that the 2nd Division forded the Guadiana, and Vere’s Marches of the 4th Division (p. 17) says the same of Cole’s brigades.
[565] ‘The principal ford is by Porta de Coito, but there are five or six between that spot and Badajoz.’ Scovell’s diary, June 17.
[566] Dispatches, vii, last two pages of the volume.
[567] Dispatches, viii. pp. 3-4, 19, 20.
[568] See for his confidence in the combination his dispatch to Lord Liverpool of June 27. (Dispatches, viii. p. 57.)
[569] ‘Il était dans l’ivresse de la joie et de la reconnaissance,’ says Marmont (Mémoires, iv. p. 45). Soult’s letters to Berthier give Marmont a handsome testimonial.
[570] The French reports show that Wellington was wrong in thinking (Dispatches, vol. viii, June 22) that the enemy got no glimpse of the British infantry. They apparently detected the 3rd and 7th Divisions.
[571] The remainder under Major von Busche was still at Cadiz. It will be remembered that it took a distinguished part in the battle of Barrosa.