[94] This I have from a document in the archives of the Ministry of War at Paris, which says that “the line of attack was formed by a brigade in column of attack. To its right and left the front line was in a mixed formation; that is to say, on each side of the central column was a battalion deployed in line, and on each of the outer sides of the deployed battalions was a battalion or regiment in column, so that at each end the line was composed of a column ready to form square, in case hostile cavalry should attempt to fall upon one of our flanks.”
[95] A phrase used by a French marshal at Bussaco!
[96] Reprinted by General Trochu in his Armée française en 1867, pp. 239, 240.
[98] For details see below, in the chapter dealing with General Picton, p. [134].
[99] Though a few depleted regiments also went home, so that the total strength never was over 18 regiments, 9000 horse or under, to 70,000 men in all. See pages [192–3].
[100] See Dispatches, vol. viii. p. 112.
[101] General Orders (collected volume), pp. 481, 482.
[102] See [Chapter XVIII.], “A note on Sieges.”
[103] See the Diary of Major Brooke, in Blackwood for 1908, p. 448, which I edited.