[100] See Schepeler, p. 172.
[102] One case is noted of a captain of the ‘Juramentado’ detachment at Badajoz who blew himself from a gun when he saw the place taken (Lamare’s Défense de Badajoz, p. 260). Carlos de España shot the other five Spanish officers captured on that occasion (Belmas, iv. p. 362).
[103] See vol. iii. pp. 594-5.
[104] After the 28th went off, the flank-companies were those of the 2/11th, 2/47th, and 1/82nd, two from each battalion.
[105] 2/47th (8 companies) 570 men, 2/87th (560 men), 1 company 95th (75 men), 70 2nd Hussars K.G.L., 1 field-battery (Captain Hughes) 83 men, or in all 1,358 of all ranks.
[106] A battalion each of Irlanda and Cantabria, and some light companies of cazadores, with 120 gunners and 25 cavalry, amounting to about 1,650 men (sick included).
[107] For details of these operations see the anonymous Defence of Tarifa (London, 1812), and letters in Rait’s Life of Lord Gough, i. pp. 69-70.
[108] This was the famous knight who, holding the place for King Sancho IV in 1294, refused to surrender it when the Moors brought his son, captured in a skirmish, before the walls, and threatened to behead him if his father refused to capitulate. Guzman would not yield, saw his son slain, and successfully maintained the fortress.
[109] For these precautions, the work of Captain Charles Smith, R.E., see the anonymous Defence of Tarifa (p. 62), and Napier, iv. pp. 59-60.