[615] See chapter v above, [pp. 394-5].
[616] Joseph to Soult, Madrid, June 30. Correspondence of Joseph, ix. p. 42.
[617] Correspondence of Joseph, ix. pp. 44-5.
[618] Joseph to Clarke, July 13, Correspondence, ix. p. 45.
[619] For d’Erlon’s letter see Joseph to Clarke of July 17th; Correspondence, ix. p. 48.
[620] This date is fixed by a letter of Joseph to Marmont, of that day, in the Scovell ciphers. It never got to Marmont.
[621] Jourdan in his Mémoires (p. 419) says that the concentration took place on the 17th, but Joseph’s letter to Clarke of July 18 says that Treillard’s dragoons would only reach Naval Carnero on the 19th, which is conclusive.
[622] All this from Vacani, vi. p. 110, where the movements of Palombini are very carefully detailed.
[623] Maupoint’s letter to the King, announcing his arrival at Madrid on the 29th-30th July, was captured by guerrilleros, and is in the Scovell collection of ciphers.
[624] Which falls into the Adaja near Olmedo, twenty miles south of Valladolid.