[622] One battalion each of the 44th and 115th Ligne and 1st of the Vistula, and the Italian Dragons de Napoléon.
[623] At Saragossa one battalion each of the 5th Léger and 117th Ligne; at Calatayud two battalions of 14th Ligne.
[624] Two battalions of the 44th, two of the 2nd of the Vistula.
[625] Three battalions of the 114th and two of the 121st, with two squadrons of cuirassiers.
[626] Two battalions of the 115th Ligne.
[627] Two battalions of the 121st Ligne.
[628] One battalion of the 115th, one of the 3rd of the Vistula, and apparently some of the Neapolitans.
[629] Down to this winter Suchet could only communicate with France up the Ebro and sent messengers via Tudela and Pampeluna, but he had just opened a somewhat shorter route for himself via Jaca and Oleron, which saved three days. Even so, communications were intolerably slow. See Suchet’s Mémoires, ii. p. 9.
[630] As Suchet remarks (ii. p. 17) the Emperor at Paris could have the news of the fall of Figueras on April 15th or 16th, while he himself only got it on April 21st.
[631] For all these arguments and others see Suchet’s Mémoires, ii. pp. 5-18.