[752] The destruction of these stores is mentioned in Marmont’s Mémoires, iv. p. 68.
[753] This may be found printed in Belmas, vol. i. Appendix, pp. 588-90.
[754] Printed in Appendix to Marmont’s Mémoires, vol. iv. pp. 257-8.
[755] The sick have grown from 18,000 to 20,000 since the day before, which is the date of a less important dispatch, in which Marmont had been warned to set aside 6,000 men only for the Valencian expedition, because Wellington is absolutely unable to strike a blow.
[756] To be exact, Wellington’s Return of November 22, the day after Napoleon dictated this dispatch, was:—
British. Present, 38,311; Detached, 3,917; sick (present and absent), 16,000.
Portuguese. Present, 24,391; Detached, 2,087; sick (present and absent), 6,000.
[757] Memorandum, dated 28th December, 1811, at Freneda. (Dispatches, viii. pp. 518-19.)
[758] Note in Correspondence, Appendix of vol. iv of Mémoires, p. 259.