[76] Dispatches, ix. p. 467.
[77] Schepeler, pp. 672-3.
[78] Wellington to Hill, October 5. Dispatches, ix. p. 469: ‘I do not write to General Ballasteros, because I do not know exactly where he is: but I believe he is at Alcaraz. At least I understand he was ordered there [by the Regency]. Tell him to hang upon the left flank and rear of the enemy, if they move by Albacete toward the Tagus.’
[79] Wellington to Popham. Dispatches, ix. p. 494.
[81] Wellington says in his Dispatch to Lord Bathurst of October 26 that the Brunswick officer disobeyed orders, and was taken because he did not retire at once, as directed.
[82] Souham to Clarke, October 22.
[83] This is the figure given by Colonel Béchaud in his interesting narrative of the doings of Maucune’s division (Études Napoléoniennes, ii. p. 396). Martinien’s lists show 3 casualties of officers only, all in the 86th of Maucune’s division.
[84] For details see Wellington’s Order of March in Supplementary Dispatches, xiv. pp. 144-5.
[85] The wheels of the artillery were all muffled with straw. The cavalry went at a walk.