[605] I took the trouble to work out the names from the immense list of prisoners at the Record Office, in order to test the truth of the statement that the whole battalion was captured. The following names appear from the 76th—Bailly, Cavie, Catrin, Demarest, Denis, Duclos, Dupin, Dupont, Dusan, Gautier, Guimblot, L’Huissier, Richard, Ravenal, besides two wounded officers, Lambert and Martinot. In addition, one officer (Lebert) was killed, and in Martinien’s Liste des officiers tués et blessés we have five more down as wounded, Dessessard, Lanzavecchia, Massibot, Norry, Rossignol. These may have died of their wounds, and so never have reached England; or they may have escaped, though wounded. The twenty-two names must represent practically the whole of the officers of the battalion.
[606] All this from Schwertfeger, i. p. 381.
[607] Foy, Guerre de la Péninsule, i. pp. 290-1.
[608] I have used for the narrative of this interesting fight not only the numerous and valuable K.G.L. sources printed or quoted by Beamish and Schwertfeger, but the letters of von Hodenberg, aide-de-camp to Bock, lent me by his representative, Major von Hodenberg, now resident in Hanover. For this officer’s interesting career see Blackwood for May 1912, where I published large sections from these letters.
[609] Their names were the colonel, Molard (who died, a prisoner, of his wounds, August 4), Baudart, Paulin, Piancet, Turpin, Paris, Bouteille; they were verified in the prisoners-rolls at the Record Office by me.
[610] Tomkinson’s Diary, p. 191.
[611] Wellington to Lord Bathurst, night of July 24. Dispatches, ix. p. 309.
[612] Tomkinson, p. 191.
[613] Clausel to King Joseph from Arevalo. Joseph’s Correspondence, ix. p. 54.
[614] Already on the day of Salamanca there were eight battalions in the army with less than 400 men present. See the tables in [Appendix].