[36] Wellington to Lord Bathurst. Dispatches, ix. pp. 443-4.
[37] For a dispute between the chief engineer, Burgoyne, who blamed the Portuguese, and some officers in the Portuguese service who resented his words, see Wellington, Supplementary Dispatches, xiv. p. 123.
[38] Clarke to Marmont of August 18, and to Masséna of August 19.
[39] Napoleon to Clarke, Moscow, September 12.
[40] See Wellington to Hill of October 2. Dispatches, ix. p. 463.
[41] Jones, i. p. 329.
[42] Indeed the besiegers had largely depended on a dépôt of French picks and shovels found by chance in the town of Burgos, after the siege had begun.
[43] See especially Tomkinson, an old comrade of Cocks in the 16th Light Dragoons, pp. 211-17.
[44] Wellington says 18 prisoners in his return. Dubreton claimed to have taken 2 officers and 36 men in his report. Possibly the difference was mortally wounded men, who were captured but died.
[45] Dispatches, ix. p. 450.