[487] 45th Ligne and 12th Léger.
[488] 2nd Hussars, 5th and 10th Chasseurs à Cheval. For an interesting narrative of Maransin’s and P. Soult’s manœuvres about Toledo, see the book of Wellington’s intelligence officer, Leith Hay, who was then a prisoner with them, having been captured while scouting (vol. ii. pp. 142-55).
[489] Clausel was sent a dispatch on May 27 not ordering him to come south at once, but requesting him to send back Barbot, Taupin, and Foy if his operations were now completed in Navarre! Mémoires du Roi Joseph, ix. 280.
[490] Viz. four and a half divisions of the Army of the South, two of the Army of the Centre, one of the Army of Portugal, the King’s French Guards, and his trifling Spanish auxiliary force.
[491] Jourdan, Mémoires, p. 466.
[492] Jourdan, Mémoires, p. 467.
[493] Wellington to Graham, Dispatches, x. p. 411.
[494] Wellington to Giron, Dispatches, x. 413 and 414, and to O’Donoju, x. pp. 414-15.
[495] Viz. Wellington to Colonel Bourke from Melgar, June 10, Dispatches, x. p. 429.