[691] See Manso’s letter and Guillot’s report on pp. 275-6 of the Court Martial Proceedings.
[692] For which see Court Martial Proceedings, pp. 282-3.
[693] His main blunder was that he took Pannetier’s brigade to be a separate item of 3,000 men, over and above the 9,000 men coming from Valencia of whom his emissary had written. He also doubled Suchet’s cavalry, by supposing that the 9th bis of Hussars and the 12th Hussars were two separate regiments. But they were the same unit, the number having recently been changed by order from Paris.
[694] Court Martial Proceedings, p. 285.
[695] See evidence of Bentinck, p. 175, and Clinton, p. 180, of Court Martial Proceedings.
[696] Evidence of Captain Milner, ibid., p. 397. This was not true at the moment, early in the morning.
[697] Donkin to Murray, 3 p.m. 11th June. Court Martial Proceedings, p. 360.
[698] He recalls this forgotten disaster in his defence (p. 300). A landing force cut off by storms from its transports had to surrender whole.
[699] Court Martial Proceedings, pp. 285-6.
[700] Donkin’s evidence, Court Martial Proceedings, p. 448.