[16] Diary of Foy, in Girod de l’Ain’s Vie militaire du Général Foy, p. 182.
[17] Wellington to Bathurst, August 18th.
[18] Wellington to Castaños, September 2. Dispatches, ix. p. 394.
[19] See especially Sir Howard Douglas’s Memoirs, pp. 206-7, and Tomkinson’s diary, p. 201. Napier is short and unsatisfactory at this point, and says wrongly that Clausel abandoned Valladolid on the night of the 6th. His rearguard was certainly there on the 7th.
[20] Castaños’s explanation was that Wellington’s letter of August 30, telling him to march on Valladolid, did not reach him till the 7th September, along with another supplementary letter to the same effect from Arevalo of September 3.
[21] ‘The proclamation was made from the town-hall in the square: few people of any respectability attended.’ Tomkinson, p. 202.
[22] Tomkinson, p. 203.
[23] Wellington to Henry Wellesley, Magaz, September 12. Dispatches, ix. p. 422.
[24] Napier, iv. p. 335.
[25] Napier was not with the main army during this march, the Light Division being left at Madrid. On the other hand Clausel had been very polite to him, and lent him some of his orders and dispatches (Napier, iv. p. 327). I fancy he was repaid in print for his courtesy. The diaries of Tomkinson, Burgoyne, D’Urban, and Sir Howard Douglas do not give the impression that the French ever stayed to manœuvre seriously, save on the 16th.