[685] Soult to Joseph, printed in Joseph’s Correspondence, ix. pp. 31-3.
[686] Drouet to Joseph, Villafranca, July 3, Paris Archives [paper communicated to me by Mr. Fortescue]. Cf. Drouet to Jourdan to much the same general effect, of June 18, in King Joseph’s Correspondence, ix. pp. 36-7.
[687] Espinchal says that the 2nd Hussars captured a Portuguese gun: I have no corroboration for this.
[688] Details of all this in Soult’s dispatch to Joseph of July 10, in Espinchal’s Mémoires (he served in Vinot’s brigade), and in the diaries of Swabey of the R.A. and of Stoltzenberg of the 2nd Hussars K.G.L., printed in full in Schwertfeger’s History of the K. G. Legion, ii. pp. 257-8.
[689] All this from Hill’s dispatch to Wellington of July 4, from Los Santos.
[690] See Wellington to Hill of July 11 (Dispatches, ix. p. 280) and Hill to Wellington of July 9. The text of the order is in Joseph’s Correspondence, ix. p. 41.
[691] Wellington to Hill, Rueda, July 11.
[692] There is plenty of detail about these quite unimportant movements in Espinchal, ii. pp. 26-33.
[693] Not, however, the bulk of Morillo’s division, which was at Medina de las Torres near Zafra, as the general’s correspondence of that date shows [Villa’s Life of Morillo, ii. p. 224].
[694] The best account of all this is in Schepeler, pp. 661-3.