[661] For all this see Rey’s letter in the Pièces justificatives of Belmas’s History of Sieges in Spain, iv. p. 662.
[662] Under General Deconchy, who got a new brigade when his old one was thrown into San Sebastian.
[663] Dubourdieu’s battery belonging to the British 1st Division, and four guns of Giron’s own small artillery equipment.
[664] Lecestre’s Lettres inédites de Napoléon, ii. p. 265.
[665] Severoli reached Valencia on May 2 (Vacani, vi. p. 207), so was not drawn down in consequence of Murray’s move of May 25, as Mr. Fortescue seems to imply in British Army, ix. p. 49. He had with him two battalions each of the 1st Line and 1st Ligero, with a weak cavalry regiment.
[666] 2nd of Burgos, detached by Wellington’s order. See Murray’s Court Martial, p. 371.
[667] These changes of units had caused some re-brigading. Murray had transferred the 4th K.G.L. and the Sicilian ‘Estero’ regiment to Clinton’s division, but taken away from the latter and given to Mackenzie the 2nd Italian Levy, the 1/10th and the 1/81st. But Clinton was given charge over Whittingham’s Spaniards, and authorized to use them as part of his division, so that his total command was now much larger than Mackenzie’s.
[668] Pontevedra and Principe.
[669] It is interesting to compare the May 31 morning state of the Army of Catalonia with the list of battalions which Murray reports as having been brought down to the neighbourhood of Tarragona. All are there save two (Fernando 7th and Ausona) left at Vich under Eroles (see [Table] in Appendix), twelve battalions were with Copons.
[670] One of the 20th Line, one of the 7th Italian Line.