[376] Dispatches, ix. p. 189.

[377] To both on June 1. Dispatches, ix. p. 197. Erskine’s name is the blank to be filled up.

[378] See vol. iv. pp. 133 and 191.

[379] Marmont to Foy, June 1.

[380] See Jourdan’s Mémoires, pp. 399-400.

[381] See vol. ii. p. 444.

[382] An officer probably better remembered by the general reader as the husband of Sarah Curran, Robert Emmet’s sometime fiancée, than as the executor of some of Wellington’s most important engineering works. He fell before Bayonne in 1814.

[383] See Wellington to Graham, 23rd and 24th May. Dispatches, ix. pp. 163-5.

[384] The best and most elaborate account of this is in Leith Hay, i. pp. 300-1.

[385] See Wellington to Henry Wellesley at Cadiz, June 7. Dispatches, ix. p. 219.