[819] Frazer’s Letters from the Peninsula, p. 205.
[820] The 38th lost 53 men, the 9th 25, the Portuguese 138 in the side-attack. Why need Belmas, who had Jones’s book before him, give the total of British losses as 2,000? (Sièges, iv. 625).
[821] Though Jones says that he saw some wounded bayoneted.
[822] Printed in Maxwell’s Peninsular Sketches, vol. ii.
[823] Campbell’s letter quoted above in his Life, i. p. 30.
[824] ‘The men, panic stricken, turned and could never be rallied,’ writes Frazer next day (p. 204). ‘One party, I believe of the 9th and 38th, went up to the breach and then turned and ran away,’ says Larpent (p. 200). Neither saw the actual assault in the dark.
[825] So at least he wrote to Castaños on the 24th: ‘j’espère que cette affaire est finie.’ Dispatches, x. p. 564.
[826] See Frazer, p. 206, and Burgoyne, i. p. 269.
[827] See Wellington to Graham, night of the 25th, Dispatches, x. p. 566.
[828] Permission was given to leave four guns behind in the main breaching batteries and two on Monte Olia, to keep up a semblance of continued attack. Dispatches, x. p. 566.