[635] Joseph to Soult of 29 July and August 2, Correspondence, ix. pp. 60-1.
[636] Wellington to Bathurst, Olmedo, July 28: ‘I think it probable that they [the Army of Portugal] will endeavour to join the King on the Upper Douro, if the King should continue on this side of the mountains, unless I should previously have it in my power to strike a blow against his corps.’
[637] This was the term that D’Urban used when describing, on July 30, the position of the French.
[638] Apparently two battalions of the Baden regiment, some Juramentados, and a regiment of dragoons, about 1,800 men.
[639] All these details are from dispatches of Wellington to D’Urban in the unpublished D’Urban papers, dated between July 30 and August 2, or from D’Urban’s report to Wellington.
[641] See Dispatches, ix. p. 320.
[642] Ibid., p. 321.
[643] Wellington to Maitland, Cuellar, August 3rd, Dispatches, ix. p. 327.
[644] Wellington to Bathurst, Dispatches, ix. p. 370.