[196] See the Memoirs of Grattan of the 88th, and Bell of the 34th.
[197] See Wellington’s Marching Orders for the 17th in Supplementary Dispatches, xiv. pp. 157-8, for the cavalry. A perverse reading of them might make the cavalry start too early for ‘the brook which passes by La Maza and Aldehuela’, where they are told to be at dawn. They are not actually directed to wait for the infantry rearguard.
[198] There is a full account of his capture in the memoirs of Espinchel, ii. p. 77, the officer whose men took Paget prisoner.
[199] The movements of this day are made very difficult to follow by the fact that Wellington in his dispatches (ix. 464-5) calls Hill’s column the right, and the Spanish column the left, of the three in which the Army marched. Vere’s Diary of the Marches of the 4th Division does the same. But these directions are only correct when the army faced about and stopped to check the French. On the march Hill’s was the left column, and the Spaniards the right. For this reason I have called them the southern and northern columns respectively.
[200] Soult to Joseph, November 17, from before San Muñoz.
[201] So the regimental histories (both good) of these corps. Napier gives one more company of the 43rd.
[202] Napier, iv. p. 385.
[203] Autobiography of Green of the 68th, p. 127.
[204] British ‘missing’ one officer (General Paget) and 111 men, Portuguese ‘missing’ 66 men.
[205] Reminiscences of Hay, 12th Light Dragoons, p. 86.