A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 5, Oct. 1811-Aug. 31, 1812

by Charles Oman

[280] Belmas, iv. p. 202.

[281] Kincaid, p. 39.

[282] Leith Hay, ii. pp. 256-7.

[283] Memoirs of Donaldson of the 94th, p. 158.

[284] Wellington, Supplementary Dispatches, vii. p. 311.

[285] It is said on good first-hand authority that all the inmates of an asylum for female lunatics were raped. See Lettow-Vorbeck, Geschichte des Krieges von 1806-7, ii. p. 384.

[286] Hodenberg of the K.G.L. See his letters published in Blackwood’s Magazine for March 1913, by myself.

[287] Recollections of Col. P. P. Nevill, late Major 63rd [but with the 30th at Badajoz], pp. 15-16.

[288] Donaldson of the 94th, p. 159.

[289] The letter is printed in Marmont’s Correspondance, iv. pp. 304-5.