[672] They both became officers in the Catalan army, and survived for many years after the war; the elder died, a retired brigadier-general, in the year 1850. See Arteche, x. 480. Vacani and Napier err in saying that he was hanged with Marquez, who was his cousin.
[673] Correspondance, vol. xxii, no. 18,066.
[674] An interesting study of the reorganization of the Catalan army in August-September 1811 is given in Estalella’s El Batallon de Hostalrich (Madrid, 1909), an account of the fortunes of Manso’s new Cazadores de Cataluña in 1811-14.
[675] These divisions were those of Maucune, Sarrut, and Ferey.
[676] Clausel’s division in the province of Avila, Brennier at Plasencia.
[677] For an interesting account of the experiences of an officer sent to scrape together drafts and convalescents despite of the petty governors, see the diary of Sprünglin, pp. 484-5. He had special difficulties with Thiébault, the Governor of Salamanca.
[678] Correspondence from Berthier printed in Marmont’s Autobiography, iv. p. 122.
[679] See Joseph to Marmont in the correspondence of the latter, iv. pp. 150-6.
[681] Marmont’s Mémoires, iv. p. 58.