[516] These were the words of Colonel Arnaud, senior aide-de-camp to Gazan, conversing (most incautiously) with his prisoner Leith Hay, whose diary is most interesting for these days. See Leith Hay, ii. p. 176.
[517] Foy to Jourdan, Bergara, June 19.
[518] Some of Hill’s troops used the bridge of Rampalares also, a few miles west of Puente Arenas.
[519] But did not follow the main road to Osma, going off by a by-path north of the sierras to Orduña.
[520] Dispatches, x. p. 450.
[521] Pakenham’s Private Correspondence (ed. Lord Longford, 1914) gives no help. He only writes on June 24th, ‘Lord W. left me to protect his rear: I executed my duty, but have lost my laurel.... I have satisfied myself, and I hope my master’ (p. 211).
[522] In Supplementary Dispatches, vii. the two papers on pp. 641 and 644 should be read together, the first giving the moves for Graham and the Light and 4th Divisions, the second for Hill and the 3rd and 7th Divisions.
[523] Jourdan, Mémoires, p. 472.
[524] Not Barbacena as in Napier: the latter place is in Portugal.
[525] They lost 1 officer and 1 man wounded only.