[990] All this in Q.M.G. to Hill, &c., in Supplementary Dispatches, viii. pp. 154-5, where it is stupidly printed after the evening orders given at 9 p.m.
[991] Soult says by way of Zubiri, Eugui, and Lanz, which seems a vast circuit—this march must surely have been made on the preceding evening: in the dark it would hardly have been possible.
[992] 75th Line. Darmagnac says in his report that its colonel attacked the second position without orders. Martinien’s lists show that it lost 16 officers—presumably therefore over 300 men.
[993] See [casualty tables] in Appendix. Maransin had no losses, having never been engaged. Hill made an astounding blunder in estimating his total loss at 400 in his report to Wellington. Nine British and 36 Portuguese officers were hit—exactly the same number as the French officer-casualties.
[994] Hill had Fitzgerald’s and O’Callaghan’s British brigades—2,600 deducting Maya losses, Da Costa’s brigade 2,300, Ashworth’s 2,800, and some squadrons of Long’s light dragoons—about 8,000 in all. D’Erlon had, also deducting 2,000 Maya losses, over 18,000 infantry in his three divisions—not to speak of the cavalry division just arrived.
[995] Soult to Clarke, August 2.
[996] Supplementary Dispatches, viii. pp. 152-3.
[997] Supplementary Dispatches, viii. p. 154, written at Ostiz, 30th July, many hours after the preceding note to Alten, also written on the 30th but from Villaba. It is endorsed by G. Murray, Lizaso, 11 a.m., 31st July.