[779] See Wellington to Bathurst, Dispatches, x. p. 599, and other epistles on same topic.
[780] Called the Mirador (’look-out’), Queen’s, and Principe batteries: there were others facing sea-ward, which were of no account in this siege, as no attack from the water-side took place.
[781] See Jones’s Sieges of the Peninsula, ii. p. 94.
[782] The governor surrendered the town on August 1, but retired into the castle of La Mota, where he capitulated a few days later, just as Rey did in 1813.
[783] Jones’s Sieges of the Peninsula, ii. p. 14.
[784] Dickson’s diary, July 12, 1813, p. 960 of Colonel John Leslie’s edition of the Dickson Papers.
[785] Jones, ii. p. 97.
[787] See Graham to Wellington, Supplementary Dispatches, viii. p. 62. The K.G.L. brigade of the 1st Division was present for a few days.
[788] Wellington to Graham, Dispatches, x. p. 512.