[356] Original in the Scovell Papers. Place of capture uncertain, but clearly taken by guerrilleros between Seville and Madrid.

[357] See above, [pp. 269-70].

[358] Wellington to Graham, Fuente Guinaldo, May 4, Dispatches, ix. p. 114.

[359] Ibid., p. 101.

[360] D’Urban’s unpublished diary, under May 6.

[361] Minus, of course, the 13th Light Dragoons.

[362] Erskine was the senior officer left with the corps—a dangerous experiment. One marvels that Wellington risked it after previous experience.

[363] Wellington to Graham, May 7, Dispatches, ix. p. 128.

[364] This was the Tilson of 1809: he had lengthened his name.

[365] Captain MacCarthy of the 50th.