Despatch of Jan. 12th, 1816, in Colonial Office, St. Helena, No. 1.
Lord Rosebery ("Napoleon: last Phase," p. 67), following French sources, assigns the superiority of force to Lowe; but the official papers published by Forsyth, vol. i., pp. 397-416, show that the reverse was the case. Lowe had 1,362 men; the French, about 3,000.
From a letter in the possession of Miss Lowe.