[226] See Suchet, Mémoires, ii. p. 269.
[227] The best account is in Gildea’s History of the 81st Regiment, pp. 104-8.
[228] Dispatches, ix. p. 487.
[229] 161 of the 20th Light Dragoons, and 71 of the ‘Foreign Hussars,’ a newly raised corps, mainly German, which did very creditably in 1813.
[230] Wellington to Lord Bathurst. Dispatches, ix, p. 535.
[231] Dispatches, ix. p. 545.
[232] See Wellington to H. Clinton (W. Clinton’s brother) on December 9 (Dispatches, ix. p. 614), and to Lord Bathurst (ibid., p. 616).
[233] Wellington to Lord Liverpool, Dispatches, ix. p. 573.
[234] These figures seem to represent about 1,400 prisoners at Rodrigo, 4,000 at Badajoz, 300 at the Almaraz forts, 600 at the Salamanca forts, 7,000 at the battle of Salamanca, 2,000 at the Retiro, 1,300 at Astorga, 700 at Guadalajara, with 2,000 more taken in smaller affairs, such as the surrenders of Consuegra and Tordesillas, the combat on the Guarena, the pursuit after Salamanca, and Hill’s operations in Estremadura.
[235] This looks a large figure, but over 150 guns were taken at Rodrigo, more than that number at Badajoz, several hundred in the Retiro, and infinite numbers in the Cadiz lines and the arsenal of Seville, not to speak of the captures at Astorga, Guadalajara, Almaraz, and in the field at Salamanca, &c.