[156] These movements from Jourdan to Clarke, of November 10, and Soult to Clarke of November 12.
[157] See the Notes of the Baden officer Riegel (vol. iii. p. 537), who complains bitterly of the piercing north wind, and the lack of wood to build fires.
[158] D’Espinchel (ii. p. 71) says that the voltigeurs got within the walls, but were expelled on each occasion. The English narratives deny that they ever closed, or reached the barricades.
[159] Soult to Joseph, 8 a.m. on the 11th, ‘bivouac sur la hauteur en arrière d’Alba de Tormes.’
[160] General Hamilton’s account of the business (Dispatch to Hill, Wellington Dispatches, ix. p. 558) is very clear. There is also a good account of the Alba fighting in Colonel Gardyne’s excellent history of the 92nd.
[161] All their names verifiable from Martinien’s admirable lists of ‘Officiers tués et blessés.’
[162] See Jourdan’s Mémoires, p. 441, for the meeting.
[163] Wellington to Hill, November 10, 4.30 p.m. (Dispatches, ix. p. 549).
[164] Same to same, November 11 (ix. p. 550).
[165] Same to same, pp. 550-1.