[446] Dispatches, x. p. 464.

[447] Wellington to Henry Wellesley. Dispatches, x. p. 239.

[448] Wellington to Stapleton Cotton, ibid., p. 268, and to Bathurst, ibid. 295, speaking of the extraordinary dry spring. Dickson notes in his Diary that for two months before April 4 there had been no rain.

[449] See Dispatches, x. pp. 372-3.

[450] Wellington to Beresford, April 24. Dispatches, x. p. 322.

[451] See above, pp. [224-5].

[452] Wellington to Bathurst, Dispatches, x. 372.

[453] Wellington to Bathurst, May 6. Dispatches, x. p. 361.

[454] Algarve, and Hussars of Estremadura.

[455] Pontevedra and Principe.