[150] See tables on pp. 324-5 of Halliday’s Present State of Portugal, published in 1812.
[151] Halliday’s Present State of Portugal, p. 320.
[152] The deductions were—sick, 7,500; untrained recruits, 4,000; dismounted cavalry, 3,000; regiment at Cadiz, 1,500; garrisons (infantry and artillery) and men on detachment, 10,000; leaving some 33,000 for the field. By May the gross total had gone down to 56,674.
[153] Set forth in detail, and with a sample bond for 1,000 dollars added, in Dispatches, ix. pp. 104-5.
[154] See especially below in chapter iii of section xxxiii. [p. 349].
[155] For these phrases and much more abuse, see Napier, iv. p. 199, a most venomous and unjust passage.
[156] Fortescue’s British Statesmen, pp. 277-8.
[157] Per contra five depleted second battalions went home.
[158] Printed in Wellington’s Supplementary Dispatches, vii. pp. 257-88.
[159] Wellington to Wellesley, camp before Badajoz, Supplementary Dispatches, vii. p. 307.