[230] Wellington to Hill, Feb. 12, Dispatches. viii. p. 603.
[231] The ‘third division’ practically represented Thiébault’s old division of the Army of the North, which had long held the Salamanca district. This division was to be deprived of its Polish regiment (recalled to France with all other Poles) and to be given instead the 130th, then at Santander. But the 130th really belonged to the Army of Portugal (Sarrut’s division), though separated from it at the moment. So Marmont was being deprived of one regiment more.
[232] Dorsenne to Marmont, from Uñas, Feb. 5.
[233] Napoleon to Berthier, Jan. 27.
[234] Wellington to Douglas, Dispatches, viii. p. 568.
[235] An exaggeration, but hay was actually brought to Lisbon and Coimbra, and used for the English cavalry brigades, which had been sent to the rear and cantoned on the Lower Mondego.
[236] Marmont to Berthier, Valladolid, Feb. 26. Marmont’s Mémoires, iv. pp. 344-5.
[237] Marmont’s ‘Observations on the Imperial Correspondence of Feb. 1812,’ Mémoires, iv. p. 512.
[238] To be exact, it was on May 10 that Marmont took over the command from Masséna, and Almeida was evacuated by Brennier that same night.
[239] I extract these various paragraphs from Marmont’s vast dispatch of March 2, omitting much more that is interesting and apposite.