[998] One battalion and one cavalry regiment, see above, [p. 681].
[999] Wellington to Q.M.G., Irurita, 3 p.m.
[1000] Narrative of L’Estrange of the 31st, p. 121.
[1001] In his report, as he explains, ‘je m’occupai de déblayer la route, qui était encombrée d’équipages et de cavalerie.’
[1002] D’Erlon in his report of August 3 says that ‘the majority of the enemy’s soldiers were drunk,’ an involuntary tribute to their wild pluck.
[1003] The 7th Division had a steep scramble and a tough fight; see the diary of Green of the 68th, p. 162.
[1004] A fact mentioned only by D’Erlon and by Rigaud’s history of the 5/60th, Fitzgerald’s corps.
[1005] So I deduce from there being precisely 10 officer-casualties in Abbé’s regiments, according to Martinien’s lists.
[1006] Hill and the Quartermaster-General, George Murray, had settled at 11 a.m. that Wellington’s original order was only ‘momentarily suspended’ and not cancelled, by the necessity for driving in ‘the column of the enemy now retiring by the Donna Maria road.’ Supplementary Dispatches, viii. p. 163.
[1007] Supplementary Dispatches, viii. p. 159.