[760] Martinien’s invaluable lists show only three officers wounded in the 16th.
[761] For Hill’s force at this time see [Appendix XXIII]. He had 5,800 British infantry, 7,400 Portuguese infantry, 1,800 British cavalry (including Le Marchant’s brigade at Castello Branco), 650 Portuguese cavalry, and about 600 artillery, &c., about 16,000 in all. Drouet had the 9th Corps, now about 14,000 strong (it had been recruited by the return to the ranks of the convalescents of the 4,000 Albuera wounded), and six regiments of cavalry from the Army of the South, bringing up his force to much the same figure.
[763] Wellington to Hill, August 8th. (Dispatches, viii. pp. 180-2.)
[764] See for the recall the dispatch of October 4. (Dispatches, viii. p. 321.)
[765] For copious details see the Life of Morillo, by Don Antonio Villa, pp. 47-55 (Madrid, 1910).
[766] At the breaking up of the 9th Corps in June, Claparéde took over Gazan’s old division in the 5th Corps, and Conroux that of Ruffin in the 1st Corps. But the 9th Corps battalions were not all redistributed into their regiments till Conroux came back from Soult’s campaign against the Murcians in August.
[767] See Wellington to Hill, October 4 and October 10. (Dispatches, viii. pp. 321, and 332-3.)
[768] Wellington to Hill, from Freneda, October 16. (Dispatches, viii. pp. 333-4.)
[769] Same to same, October 17, acknowledging Hill’s proposal made in a letter of October 15.