[160] Liverpool to Wellington, Supplementary Dispatches, vii. p. 257.
[161] For this date see Marmont to Berthier, from Valladolid, Feb. 6, 1812.
[162] For details, see [chapter iii] of section xxx above.
[163] Dispatches, viii. p. 516.
[164] Wellington to Lord Liverpool, Dec. 28.
[165] For details of this operation see Thiébault’s Mémoires, iv. pp. 538-43, corroborated by Wellington’s Dispatches, viii. pp. 373-5 and 385-6.
[166] See vol. iv. p. 549.
[167] Dispatches, viii, Report of Dec. 28 to Lord Liverpool on the late campaign.
[168] Wellington to Hill, Dispatches, viii. p. 482, compare Wellington to Liverpool, viii. pp. 485-6, of the next morning.
[169] See Dispatches, viii. p. 520. See the Dickson MSS., edited by Major Leslie, for letter from Almeida in December.