[565] Arentschildt reports that his and D’Urban’s men were all mixed and busy with the French infantry, when the French hussars charged in, and that he rallied, to beat them off, a body composed mostly of his own Germans, but with Portuguese and 14th Light Dragoons among them.
[566] The moment is fixed by Wachholz, who says that he looked at his watch, to fix the hour.
[567] This was the 122nd (three battalions), of Bonnet’s division, which Marmont says (see above, [p. 430]) that he had placed as a connecting-link between the Arapile and the troops on the plateau.
[568] All this from the journal of Chas. Synge, Pack’s aide-de-camp, who was with the caçadores, and was desperately wounded at the bank, in the first clash. It was printed in the Nineteenth Century for July 1912.
[569] See Vere’s Marches of the 4th Division, p. 36.
[570] All this from Wachholz, who was now with the 7th Fusiliers.
[571] See Vere’s Marches of the 4th Division, p. 36. The 3/27th on top of the hill was not brought forward, as some wrongly say.
[572] This from Wachholz’s narrative, very clearly explained. The Fusiliers were not relieved by the advance of the 1/40th and 3/27th, as some authorities state.
[573] The 122nd lost 21 officers and 508 men, the 118th and 119th probably as many or more—they had respectively 20 and 26 officers hit. The 120th, the regiment on the Great Arapile, lost only 8 officers—but 580 men, an almost inexplicable disproportion. The 118th claimed to have taken a flag—perhaps one of the 7th Portuguese Caçadores, who were badly cut up when Bonnet first advanced.
[574] The losses of three of Clausel’s four regiments chance to have been preserved—the 25th Léger lost 16 officers and 322 men: the 27th Ligne 7 officers and 159 men: the 59th Ligne 17 officers and 253 men. The 50th, which had 26 officers hit, must have had more casualties than any of the other three, so the total divisional loss must have been well over 1,200. But Bonnet’s division, much worse mauled, lost at least 2,200.