[356] Ibid., vii. pp. 539-41.
[357] He was captured by a raiding party, while watching the enemy from too short a distance, on August 31.
[358] So Clarke to the King, Corresp. du Roi Joseph, vol. ix. p. 189.
[359] Jourdan, Mémoires, p. 452.
[360] See Corresp. du Roi Joseph, ix. p. 187.
[361] See account in the Memoirs of Patterson of the 50th, pp. 303-5.
[362] See dispatch in Girod’s Vie militaire du Général Foy, pp. 386-7. The whole is written in a boastful and unconvincing style, unworthy of such a good soldier. Colonel Harrison’s report is singularly vague and short. He only says that the enemy made off, leaving their dead behind.
[363] Desprez to Joseph, from Paris, January 3, Corresp. R. J. ix. pp. 180-2.
[364] Nap. Corresp. xxiv, no. 19411.
[365] See vol. v. pp. 538-9.