[180] Mein and Woodgate of the 52nd, and Hawkesley of the 95th. The last named died of his wounds.
[181] This mistake is acknowledged in Jones’s Sieges, i. p. 120, and much commented on by Burgoyne [Life and Correspondence, i. p. 161], who complains that an immense amount of work was wasted, two nights’ digging put in, the terre-plain levelled, and even some platforms laid, before the error was detected.
[182] Burgoyne, i. p. 162.
[183] See Schwertfeger’s History of the German Legion, i. p. 353. Jones (Sieges, i. p. 125) is quite wrong in saying that the convent was carried ‘with no loss.’
[184] See Dickson Papers, Jan. 1812.
[185] See vol. iii. p. 239. The illustration of Rodrigo on the morning after the storm, inserted to face [page 186] of this volume, shows the facts excellently.
[186] See Barrié’s report in appendix to Belmas, iv. p. 299.
[187] Jones’s Sieges, i. p. 137.
[188] For a lively account of this exploit see Grattan’s With the Connaught Rangers, p. 154.
[189] Many narratives speak of General Mackinnon as being killed by the first explosion, and others (including Wellington’s dispatch) call the second explosion that of an expense magazine fired by accident. Barrié’s report, however, settles the fact that it was a regular mine: and for Mackinnon’s death after the storming of the cuts I follow the narrative by an eye-witness appended at the end of the general’s diary.