[621] Wellington to Bathurst, Dispatches, xii. p. 496.
[622] Personal diaries seem to show that this was the case with Cadogan’s brigade on the right, and the whole 5th Division on the left.
[623] This interesting fact is recorded in a conversation of Wellington with Croker, which contains some curious notes on the battle (Croker, ii. p. 232).
[624] Thinking that he had only his own two divisions of the Army of the North, and Taupin’s of the Army of Portugal, while really Barbot’s division was also with him.
[625] The former going by El Burgo and Alegria, the latter by Arzubiaga and Audicana.
[626] Murray to Wellington, Supplementary Dispatches, viii. pp. 3-4.
[627] See his dispatch to Wellington dated from Tolosa on June 26th.
[628] See vol. iv. p. 327.
[629] See Colonel Frazer’s account in his Peninsular Letters, p. 186.
[630] See, for this statement of the Duke’s, Fortescue’s British Army, vol. ix. p. 199.