[729] Ibid., x. p. 521.
[730] Ibid., x. pp. 553-4. When this letter was written to Lord William Bentinck, Wellington had received no London dispatch for twenty days, mainly owing to bad weather in the Bay of Biscay.
[731] Ibid., x. pp. 613-14, to Lord Bathurst.
[732] Ibid., x. p. 478, to Bentinck.
[733] Ibid., x. pp. 477-9.
[734] Ibid., x. p. 531.
[735] Full details in O’Donnell’s report to Wellington of July 1, 1813. Dispatches, p. 503. Toreno makes an odd mistake in calling the French commander de Ceva: this was the name of the junior officer who drew up the capitulation.
[736] Not to be confounded with General Cassagne, who long commanded a division in the Army of Andalusia.
[737] Late Hamilton’s division in 1810-11-12.
[738] Lord Dalhousie was left in command—a great slight to Picton—all the more so after what had happened at Vittoria. See Supplementary Dispatches, viii. p. 249.