[625] Clausel to Joseph, Correspondance, ix. pp. 54-5.
[626] ‘Certainement, c’était le meilleur,’ says Jourdan, commenting on the choice years after.
[627] For this business see Hamilton’s History of the 14th Light Dragoons, p. 109. The leader of the patrol, a Corporal Hanley of that regiment, had only eight men, but surprised the chasseurs in an inn, and bluffed them into surrender.
[628] See Wellington to Hill of July 26. Dispatches, ix. p. 314. The Soult letter is in the Scovell collection of ciphers.
[629] For details, see Tomkinson, p. 192.
[630] See von Hodenberg’s letter concerning this in Blackwood for June 1912.
[631] Printed in Joseph’s Correspondence, ix. pp. 46-7.
[632] On the next day, August 2, the letter came to hand at Galapagar.
[633] Soult to Joseph, Correspondance, ix. pp. 45-7.
[634] Berthier to Marmont—writing from the Emperor’s personal direction—of February 18th, 1812, printed in Marmont’s Correspondence, iv. p. 332.