[641] Wellington to Castaños, Monreal, June 30, Dispatches, x. p. 477, and to Bathurst, x. p. 496 and ibid. 501.
[642] Elaborate dispositions for their distribution round the fortress are given in the Order dated June 30 (Supplementary Dispatches, viii. pp. 34-6).
[643] See above, [p. 378]. For all the narrative which follows Foy’s well-written dispatches, printed in full in his life by Girod de l’Ain, are a primary authority. But I think that historians have given him a little more credit than he deserves—he is a very engaging witness. As to his own strength, that of his enemies, and the losses on both sides, he is no more trustworthy than Soult or Masséna. It may suffice to say that he makes the British 4th and 5th Divisions present at Tolosa, and gives Longa 6,000 men.
[644] Foy to Jourdan, 20 June, in Girod de l’Ain’s appendix, pp. 393-4.
[645] Batteries of Smith and Arriaga. Julius Hartmann, commanding Artillery Reserve, accompanied them; see Dickson Papers, June 22.
[646] From the journal of operations of General Giron’s Army, lent me by Colonel Arzadun.
[647] In his Diary (Girod de l’Ain, p. 210) Foy says that he had only one battalion of the 6th Léger, in his formal dispatch to Clarke (ibid. 395) he says that he had two.
[648] In reporting to Giron Longa mentions his 53 prisoners, and says that his own losses were ‘inconsiderable.’ Journal of the Army of Galicia, June 22.
[649] Journal of the Army of Galicia, June 23.
[650] Maucune reported 200 casualties (Foy, ed. Girod de l’Ain, p. 333), Graham 93, mostly in the 5th Caçadores. St. Pol’s Italians had beaten off Longa without losing more than 100 men—Giron does not give Longa’s loss, which was probably a little more.