[146] The total which marched was 60,000, so Wellington was even more correct than he supposed in his notion that 45,000 was too small a figure.
[147] Wellington to Lord Bathurst, Pitiegua, November 8. Dispatches, ix. pp. 544-5.
[148] Dispatches, ix. p. 520.
[149] Wellington to Hill, Rueda, November 5. Dispatches, ix. p. 537.
[150] Ibid., p. 539.
[151] I cannot find the details of the marching orders of the divisions; but from personal diaries I seem to deduce that the 5th and 7th Divisions marched by Alaejos, the 1st and 6th by Castrejon and Vallesa, while the cavalry not only provided a rearguard but kept out flank detachments as far as Cantalapiedra on one side and the lower Guarena on the other.
[152] All this from the detailed routes of march in the dispatches of Jackson (Hill’s Q.M.G.) to D’Urban on November 4-5-6.
[153] See his dispatch of November 8 from Flores de Avila.
[154] For an adventure with these rascals, who threatened to shoot one of Hill’s aides-de-camp, see Schepeler, p. 691.
[155] The ground on which Del Parque had fought his unlucky battle in 1809.