[701] Williamson’s evidence, Proceedings, p. 124.
[702] Williamson’s evidence, ibid., p. 125.
[703] Mr. Fortescue has, I think, misinterpreted this order, when he says that it told Clinton to march to the same spot as the first (British Army, ix. p. 63), for Constanti is not in the direction of the Gaya, but on the opposite flank, west of the Francoli river.
[704] A queer misprint in this dispatch makes it say ‘the enemy will march.’
[705] Evidence of Captains Withers and Bathurst, R.N., Court Martial Proceedings, pp. 86 and 95.
[706] Mackenzie in his evidence says his men began at 2 p.m. to get into the boats.
[707] Evidence of Bentinck, ibid., p. 176. The cavalry went off at 3 p.m.
[708] The hours of this belated work are stated very differently by various naval witnesses, some of whom say that they worked till 1 a.m., others till 4 a.m., others till 7; one thinks that embarkations continued till well into the forenoon of the 13th—say 11 o’clock. At any rate, the hour must have been long after daylight had come—which was at 4.15, as is recorded by one witness.
[709] The total loss of Murray’s Army during the Tarragona operations was:
| Killed. | Wounded. | Missing. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British, Germans, Calabrese, Italian Levy | 14 | 60 | 5 | 102 | |
| Sicilians | — | 15 | — | ||
| Whittingham’s Spaniards | 1 | 7 | — |