[240] Marmont writes the Army of the Centre, evidently in confusion for the Army of the North. The nearest posts of the Army of the Centre were 150 miles away from the Esla, while the Army of the North at Burgos was much closer. Moreover, the Army of the Centre had not two infantry divisions, but only one—d’Armagnac’s—and some Juramentado regiments.
[241] See chapter vii of book iv, Peninsular War, iv. pp. 138-40.
[242] Why omit the 30,000 men of Graham and Hill?
[243] This was the case with G. Anson’s brigade and Bradford’s Portuguese infantry. Pack went by Coimbra, Slade’s cavalry brigade by Covilhão, and the horse artillery of Bull and McDonald with it.
[244] Nothing is rarer, as all students of the Peninsular War know to their cost, than a table of the exact movements of Wellington’s army on any march. For this particular movement the whole of the detailed orders happen to have been preserved in the D’Urban Papers. The starting-places of the units were:—
1st Division—Gallegos, Carpio, Fuentes de Oñoro.
3rd Division—Zamorra (by the Upper Agueda).
4th Division—San Felices and Sesmiro.
5th Division—Ciudad Rodrigo.
6th Division—Albergaria (near Fuente Guinaldo).