[611] Tomkinson, p. 254.
[612] Miot de Melito, iii. p. 279.
[613] There are amusing accounts of the conversation of this lively lady in the narratives of Leith Hay and Dr. McGrigor, who took care of her.
[614] But Lecor had a straggler or two out of one of his line-battalions—no doubt men who had gone off marauding, like most of the missing in the British list.
[615] Supplementary Dispatches, viii. p. 8.
[616] See e. g. Swabey’s note on his dangerous ride with Graham along the Esla, at the end of May, ‘whether the General is blind or mad I have not decided—he must have been one or the other to ride in cold blood over those rocks and precipices.’ Swabey’s Diary, p. 595.
[617] Cairnes’s Diary, p. 926.
[618] Fée, Souvenirs de la guerre d’Espagne, pp. 249-50.
[619] He is thinking of the nights after the storms of Rodrigo and Badajoz.
[620] Dispatches, xii. p. 473. The regiment named is a newly arrived cavalry unit, which attracted the Commander-in-Chief’s special notice by its prominence in plundering.