[581] Gérard: Quelques Doc., p. 12.
[582] We shall examine the English authorities in the Notes to this chapter. See post, p. 280.
[583] Jomini, pp. 175 et seq.
[584] 10.30 A.M., according to Charras, vol. 2, p. 62.
[585] Clausewitz, ch. 50, p. 146.
[586] Charras, vol. 2, pp. 57, 58.
[587] We reserve for the Notes to this chapter the consideration of the various opinions on the consequences of this movement, had it been made.
[588] See Siborne’s excellent remarks on this subject,—vol. 1, pp. 318 et seq.
[589] Declaration of M. Leguest, in the Grouchy Mém., vol. 4, pp. 141, 142. The staff-officer, by name Pont-Bellanger, must have left Moustier several hours before Marbot’s officer, Captain Eloy, got there. See Marbot, vol. 3, p. 407.
[590] See the Notes to this chapter.