[526] Tomkinson’s Diary, p. 242.
[527] At least Martinien’s lists show one officer killed and five wounded—all but one in Sarrut’s regiments—which at the usual rate would mean 120 casualties.
[528] Most of these details are from the excellent account by an officer of the 43rd in Maxwell’s Peninsular Sketches, ii. pp. 39-40. This narrative was evidently seen by Napier, who reproduces many of its actual words, as I have done myself. It must have been lent him long before it was printed in 1845.
[529] Martinien’s lists show only 1 officer killed and 5 wounded this day in Maucune’s division—this means about 120-50 casualties, but of course does not include the unwounded prisoners from the baggage-guard. Jourdan says that the division had ‘une perte assez considérable.’
[530] See Vie militaire du Général Foy, pp. 206-7.
[531] Vie militaire du Général Foy, p. 206. The editor, Girod de l’Ain, seems to prove that Foy got no other dispatch, though Jourdan declares that several had been sent to him.
[532] It would appear, however, that though the 1st and 5th Divisions and Anson’s cavalry never went near Orduña, yet Bradford and Pack’s Portuguese (without artillery) had got so near it on the preceding day that Wellington let them go through it, bringing them back to the main body via Unza by a mountain path. See Supplementary Dispatches, vii. p. 647.
[533] Probably by Angulo, and the valley of the Gordajuela.
[534] He says so in his letter to the Conde d’Abispal, Dispatches, x. pp. 445-6. ‘Je les attaquerai demain, s’ils ne font pas la retraite dans la nuit.’
[535] Napier, v. p. 114.