[969] Quartermaster-General to Dalhousie and Hill, Supplementary Dispatches, viii. p. 151.
[970] Ibid., Q.M.G. to Hill, p. 152. In this Da Costa’s brigade is called the Conde de Amarante’s division, but Campbell had not yet joined Da Costa.
[971] Q.M.G. to Alten, Supplementary Dispatches, viii. pp. 150-1.
[972] Foy (Girod de l’Ain), p. 219.
[973] These guns did not belong to Brandreth’s battery, the divisional artillery of the 6th Division, but oddly enough to Cairnes’s battery, which belonged to the 7th. See Duncan’s History of the Royal Artillery, ii. p. 190.
[974] Sympher’s, of the K.G.L.
[975] Foy in Girod de l’Ain, p. 220.
[976] That the firing began at dawn immediately is stated by Larpent, p. 210. That the troops were under arms before daylight is noted by the anonymous Soldier of the 42nd, p. 199. The attack by the 6th Division on Sorauren was appreciably before the descent of Cole and Byng from the heights of Oricain.
[977] Girod de l’Ain, p. 221.
[978] 43rd Line (2 battalions).