[14] Apparebat ferociter omnia ac præpropere acturum. Quoque pronior esset in sua vitia, agitare eum atque irritare Pœnus parat. Liv. 1. xxii. n. 3.
[15] Napier, vol. v. p. 132.
[16] A French writer tells us, that when he had dictated, at Paris, the bulletin of this battle, he finished, by exclaiming with a groan, “It was lost, and my glory with it!”
[17] Hist. Memoirs, book ix, p. 209.
[18] “Information which might be depended upon had made known the position of the Allies in all particulars.—Fleury, vol. ii, p. 161.
“To anticipate the Allies, and to commence hostilities before they were ready, it was necessary to take the field on the 15th June.”—Hist. Memoir, Book ix, p. 59.
“The period of the arrival of the English army from America was known. The Allied armies could not be in readiness to act simultaneously until July.”—Gourgaud’s Campaign, p. 29.
[19] Hist. Memoir, Book ix, p. 127.
[20] Gourgaud, p. 38; Fleury, vol. ii, p. 167.
[21] Junot, at Rolica and Vimiera; Victor at Talavera; Massena at Busaco; Ney, after Torres Vedras; Marmont at Salamanca; Jourdan at Vittoria; and Soult in the Pyrenees, Toulouse, &c. &c.