[506] ‘Grant begged Lord Wellington to allow him to attack the retiring infantry, but in spite of his pressing solicitations was not permitted.’ Maxwell’s Peninsular Sketches, ii. 99.
[507] Jourdan, Mémoires, p. 469.
[508] Cf. Miot de Melito in Ducasse, ix. p. 468.
[509] Cf. Jourdan’s Mémoires, p. 470; Wellington Dispatches, x. pp. 436-7; Digeon’s Report, and the Appendix in Arteche, xiii. p. 486. Toreno (iii. p. 230) says that the citizens held that the French had intended the mine to work when they were gone, and to destroy the city and the incoming allied troops, but leans to the view that ignorance of the power of explosives explains all.
[510] Dispatches, x. p. 436.
[511] Sometimes called the bridge of Policutes, from the name of the village on the opposite bank.
[512] Tomkinson’s Diary, p. 341.
[513] Maxwell’s Peninsular Sketches, ii. p. 38.
[514] e.g. Wachholz of Brunswick-Oels, attached to the 4th Division, p. 314.
[515] See, for example, vol. ii. p. 586 and vol. iv. p. 159.