[662] See [table XX] in Appendix.
[663] e. g. see Schepeler, i. 343, and Arteche, x. 314.
[664] Interesting details of his perilous escape, in company with a French royalist officer, Bouvet de Lozier, and of his final arrival in England, may be found in his Narrative, written in 1813.
[665] For the wording of the votes see the précis of the council of war in the Appendix to Arteche, vol. x. pp. 550-2. Caro, San Juan, Velasco, and Carrasquedo voted for embarkation: Sarsfield, Santa Cruz, and Campoverde for holding on in Catalonia. Miranda would not vote, ‘not considering himself as belonging to the Catalan army,’ but was in favour of the evacuation. Eroles was absent.
[666] Letter of Codrington, in his Life, i. p. 235.
[667] Codrington says that he only embarked 2,400 men out of the 4,000 who had come to Catalonia. The cavalry had gone another way, and 600 or 800 men had deserted, some to join the somatenes, others to find their way home to Valencia as best they could.
[668] Apparently while the army was at Agramunt near Cervera, about July 4th. See Codrington’s correspondence in his Life, i. 236, and in Napier’s Appendix to vol. iii. p. 398. For testimonials to the honourable and patriotic conduct of Eroles throughout the campaign, see Codrington’s letters, passim.
[669] One of Ultonia, two of Antequera, 1st and 2nd of the Voluntarios de Valencia.
[670] See Vacani, v. p. 313. It will be remembered that when Masséna was in a similar position at Genoa in 1800, be refused to dismiss his Austrian prisoners, and allowed many hundreds of them to die of starvation. Martinez was more merciful.
[671] ‘Hasta los insectos más inmundos’ as Martinez wrote to the Catalan Junta.