[949] The fourth battalion of the brigade, the 1/40th was detached below on the Spaniards’ Hill.
[950] Lemonnier-Delafosse, pp. 227-8.
[951] The Buffs lost only 2 men, the 1st Provisional (2/31st and 2/66th) only 5—so can hardly have been engaged,—but the 1/57th had 63 casualties.
[952] The above narrative is reconstructed from Reille’s two reports (the divisional report of Lamartinière, however, is useless) and from narratives of Stretton of the 40th in Maxwell’s Peninsular Sketches, and Mills in the history of the regiment by Smythies.
[953] There is little about this affair in the British narratives. Diarists were rare in the 6th Division. The only point of interest I found in them is the mention of mule-guns used by the French.
[954] Larpent, p. 221. Cf. Napier, v. p. 226: ‘That will give time for the 6th Division to arrive, and I shall beat him’—words true in thought but perhaps never spoken by Wellington.
[955] Lapéne, p. 80.
[956] Soult to Clarke, report of the battle.
[957] See statistics in [Appendix XXII].
[958] Narrative of Captain G. Wood of the 1/82nd, pp. 192-3.