[595] The deficiency in cavalry rank and file shown by the muster rolls between July 15 and August 1 was 512.
[596] Perhaps more: for the Reserve Artillery and Park alone show 1,450 rank and file on July 15 and only 707 on August 1.
[597] Sixty-three officers arrived in England as the Salamanca batch of prisoners; of these some were wounded, for their names occur both in Martinien’s tables as blessés, and in the Transport Office returns at the Record Office as prisoners shipped off. The remainder of the 137 were badly wounded, and came later, or died in hospital.
[598] The 7th Division would have had practically no loss but for the skirmishing in the early morning near Nuestra Señora de la Peña, and the heaviest item in the 1st Division casualties was the 62 men of the Guards’ flank-companies who were hit while defending the village of Arapiles.
[599] Cotton was shot after the battle was over by a caçador sentry, whose challenge to halt he had disregarded while riding back from the pursuit.
[600] Diary in Vie militaire, ed. Girod de l’Ain, p. 178.
[601] Il a joué serré. This idiom is explained in the Dictionary of the Academy as ‘jouer sans rien hasarder.’
[602] Note in same volume, p. 177.
[603] See Tomkinson’s Diary, p. 190. He gives the three roads used as (1) Alba, Mancera de Abaxo, Junialcon; (2) Alba, Garcia Hernandez, Peñaranda; (3) Encina, Zorita, Cebolla [names all badly spelled]. It is doubtful whether the troops on the last road were not disorderly masses of fugitives only. The bulk of the army certainly went by Peñaranda.
[604] See vol. iii. p. 255.