[286] See especially below the difficulties with the Galician army as to ammunition, and the Andalusian reserve as to transport and magazines.
[287] Dispatches, x. pp. 211-12.
[288] See Dispatches, x. p. 181, when Wellington writes in March: ‘There is not a single battalion or squadron fit to take the field, not in the whole kingdom of Spain a dépôt of provisions that would keep one battalion for one day—not a shilling of money in any military chest.’
[289] Wellington Dispatches, x. p. 199.
[290] See above, vol. iii. pp. 193, 415-17, and iv. p. 71. The best sketch of the personalities of the Portuguese regency is that in Lord Wellesley’s Memorandum respecting Portugal, in Wellington Dispatches, Suppl., vii. pp. 199-204, a very interesting document.
[291] Now Marquis de Borba by his father’s death in 1812.
[292] See e. g. Wellington Dispatches, x. pp. 37 and 106-7.
[293] See e. g. the cases dealt with in Wellington Dispatches, Suppl., vii. pp. 240 and 316.
[294] e. g. Wellington Dispatches, x. p. 129, and another case accompanied by the murder of a soldier, x. p. 117.
[295] See Wellington Dispatches, x. pp. 131, 191, and 201.