[32] Fleury, vol. ii, p. 217.
[33] At St. Helena, he told O’Meara, “When the English advanced, I had not a single corps of cavalry in reserve to resist them. Hence the English attack succeeded, and all was lost,”—O’Meara, vol. i, p. 465.
[34] “It was noon, the troops of General Bulow were stationary beyond the extreme right: they appeared to form and wait for their artillery.”—Hist. Mem. b. ix, p. 150.
[35] The Austrian account says “About five o’clock, the first cannon-shot of the Prussian army was fired from the heights of Aguiers.”
[36] Gourgaud’s Campaign of 1815, p. 113.
[37] They are described, both in Count Drouet’s speech and in “Book ix,” as “sixteen battalions.” If the battalions consisted of 600 men, this would give a total of 9600.
[38] Vol. ii, p. 192.
[39] Colonel Lemonnier de Lafosse: Memoirs, p. 385.
[40] Reille had commanded the second corps, D’Erlon the first—each of which had consisted of about 20,000 men! Can there be a more striking proof of the utter dissolution of the French army, than this fact, narrated by a French officer?
[41] Fleury de Chaboulon, vol. ii, pp. 203, 206, 218.