[396] For horrid details of mishandlings of both sexes see Marcel (of the 6th Léger) in his Campagnes d’Espagne, pp. 193-4. Marcel is a raconteur, but Belmas bears him out (iv. p. 566).
[397] Napier says the Spanish loss was 180—which seems more probable. The British ships lost one officer and sixteen men wounded, by Bloye’s report. As to the French loss, we have the names of 3 officers killed and 6 wounded during the operation—which looks like 150 to 180 casualties.
[398] See above, vol. ii. p. 341.
[399] 1/10th, 1/27th, 1/58th, 1/81st, and 2/27th which came in time for Castalla, also a battalion of grenadier companies of units in Sicily.
[400] 4th and 6th Line battalions, and a light battalion composed of the light companies of 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and of De Roll and Dillon.
[401] Three companies of De Roll and four of Dillon—the whole making up a battalion 800 bayonets and the Calabrese Free Corps.
[402] 1st and 2nd Italian Levy, and two battalions of Sicilian Estero Regiment.
[403] Those of Villacampa, Mijares, and Sarsfield.
[404] For details see letter of February 22nd in Sir Samuel Whittingham’s Memoirs, pp. 172-4. He says that Colonel Grant, commanding the 2nd Italian Levy, had made himself cordially detested by his men by ‘employing the minute worry of the old British School,’ and that Bourke of the 1st Italian Levy had much more control over his men.
[405] Murray to Wellington. Supplementary Dispatches, xiv. p. 191.