[742] Note the curious misprint in the first line of p. 307 of Wellington Dispatches, vol. viii, of Light Dragoons for Light Division. Unless the misprint is noticed, the reader will ask why Wellington has omitted Craufurd in describing his order of battle. Napier, I know not why, has altogether neglected to explain the distribution of the British army, in the short paragraph of vol. iii. p. 342 which describes this day’s operations.
[743] Graham to Cathcart, October 1, in Delavoye’s Life of Lord Lynedoch, p. 598.
[744] Thiébault’s feelings were much hurt at the skirmish being called a ‘scuffle.’ ‘Il se permit de dire que mon combat de la veille était une échauffourée. Je ne rappelle le mot que pour peindre l’arrogance d’un de ces hommes à qui leur titre de Maréchal défendait d’admettre aucun mérite en dehors d’eux-mêmes’ (Mémoires, iv. 528).
[745] Graham to Cathcart, in Delavoye’s Life of Lord Lynedoch, p. 599.
[746] There were changes in detail in November, for which see Vere’s Marches of the 4th Division, p. 21.
[747] For all this see Dickson’s Diary, edited by Major Leslie, R.A., pp. 478-501. The order to start the first section of the siege-train for Almeida was only given on November 14. (Dickson, p. 505.)
[748] Afterwards replaced by one brigade of Dumoustier’s division of the Imperial Guard.
[750] It may be found in Belmas, Appendix to vol. i. pp. 585-8. Marmont, for reasons not hard to divine, does not print it among the many documents containing his correspondence with the Emperor which appear in the Appendix to his Book XV. (Mémoires, vol. iv.)