[110] See vol. iv. pp. 101-2.
[111] Two battalions each of 43rd Line and 7th and 9th Poles, and 16th and 21st Dragoons.
[112] Three of 16th Léger, two of 54th Line, one each of 27th Léger and 94th and 95th Line.
[113] Two of 63rd and one of 8th Line.
[114] 51st Line.
[115] For details of this toilsome march see Belmas, iv. pp. 15-17.
[116] The breaching battery on the lower slope with four 16- and two 12-pounders: the upper battery with four howitzers for high-trajectory fire against the more distant guns of the besieged and the island, and two 12-pounders.
[117] According to some authorities he also spiked a 32-lb. carronade. See Defence of Tarifa, p. 63.
[118] The author of the Defence of Tarifa pretends not to know the real story (p. 63), saying that the spiking caused much ‘indignation, apprehension, and discontent,’ and that ‘whence the order proceeded is unknown.’ For the explanation see the letter from an officer of the garrison in Napier, iv, Appendix, p. 438.
[119] Gough speaks of his reply that ‘evacuation would be contrary to the spirit of General Campbell’s instructions,’ as if given at an earlier date, but, the 29th seems fixed by King’s letter to Napier in appendix to the latter’s Peninsular War, iv. pp. 443-4, quoted above.