[745] Cuenca, of Montijo’s brigade. Schepeler, p. 619.
[746] This is the figure given by Suchet in his contemporary dispatch to King Joseph, of which a copy lies in the Scovell papers. In some French accounts the number is cut down to 70.
[747] Vol. ii. p. 260.
[748] 7th Line, about 1,200; 13th Cuirassiers and 24th Dragoons, about 1,000; one battalion 44th, about 650; artillery, &c., about 150 = 3,000 in all. The 1st Léger and 116th Line were practically not engaged.
[749] This seems to have been Codrington’s view, see his Memoirs, i. p. 278, and he knew Lacy and the Catalans well.
[750] See above, [pp. 487 and 488].
[751] See Wellington to Maitland, Dispatches, ix. p. 386, dated Aug. 30.
[752] Wellington to Henry Wellesley, Dispatches, ix. p. 364.
[753] Same to same, Dispatches, ix. p. 373. He was particularly indignant at the supersession of Mexia, Intendant of Castile, by Lozano de Torres, with whom he had quarrelled in Estremadura in 1809, ‘the most useless and inefficient of all God’s creatures, and an impediment to all business.’
[754] Dispatches, ix. p. 370.