[496] Wellington to Bourke from Melgar, June 10, Dispatches, x. 429.
[497] As, for example, in the letter to Bathurst about ships. Dispatches, x. 416.
[498] These sort of courtesies were most misplaced. The subject of discussion was the exchange of the British officer captured at Morales (see above, [p. 332]) for a French officer whom Gazan was anxious to get back. See Dispatches, x. 421, Wellington to Gazan; Jourdan’s Mémoires, p. 467; and the narrative of the flag-bearer in Maxwell’s Peninsular Sketches, ii. pp. 97-8.
[499] Tomkinson’s Diary (16th Light Dragoons), pp. 239-40.
[500] Maxwell’s Peninsular Sketches, ii. 37.
[501] Dispatches, x. 437.
[502] 1st and 5th with Bradford’s Portuguese.
[503] Food having run low, owing to the mule-transport falling behind.
[504] 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th Divisions and Pack’s Portuguese.
[505] Presumably Maucune’s brigade, which had been there some time, as well as the convoy escorts.