FOOTNOTES:
[1] Fact.
[2] At this date Napoleon was already at Vittoria with 170,000 good troops. If the fact was known to the Spaniards, it was carefully concealed by them from the English.
[3] Afterwards Marquis of Anglesey.
[4] “This Army” (under Moore) “did not exceed twenty-four thousand men, and he was opposed by Napoleon, who had passed the Pyrenees at the head of three hundred and thirty thousand, and could readily bring two hundred and thirty thousand to bear against the British General.”—Peninsular War, vol. i., by Sir W. Napier.
[5] Precisely what, at this very date, Napoleon was ordering Soult to do—one of the many instances of Moore’s extraordinary “prescience.” Had Moore yielded to the clamours of his Army for a continued advance, he would simply have played into Napoleon’s hands.
[Transcriber’s note: the following changes have been made to this text.
Page 455: resourses to resources—“resources of nature”.
Page 458: Boths to Both—“Both hearts”.