[26] Head-quarters were at Valladolid, September 9; Cigales, September 10; Dueñas, September 11; Magaz, September 12; Torquemada, September 13; Cordovilla, September 14; Villajera, September 15; Pampliega, September 16; Tardajos, September 17; Villa Toro, September 18. Ten stages in about 80 miles!
[27] Wellington to Sir E. Paget, September 20. Dispatches, ix. p. 436.
[28] One of the regiments withdrawn to the north after suffering at Arroyo dos Molinos, see vol. iv. p. 603.
[29] Wellington to Castaños. Dispatches, ix. p. 394.
[30] Wellington to George Murray. Dispatches, ix. p. 398.
[31] Wellington to Lord Bathurst. Dispatches, ix. p. 442.
[32] Jones, History of the Peninsular Sieges, i. p. 473.
[33] There were eight rank and file of the Royal Military Artificers only, of whom seven were hit during the siege, and five R.E. officers in all.
[34] By an odd misprint in Wellington’s Supplementary Dispatches, xiv. p. 120, the order is made to allot the flank-battalions instead of the flank-companies to the task.
[35] This narrative of the assault, not very clearly worked out in Napier—is drawn from the accounts of Burgoyne, Jones, the anonymous ‘Private Soldier of the 42nd’ [London, 1821], and Tomkinson, the latter the special friend and confidant of Somers Cocks.