Note 513 — SECTION VII: CHAPTER VI

Seven officers and eighty men, to be exact (see Ségur, Mémoires, iii. 282). It does not seem to be generally known that the Poles were not yet lancers. They were only armed with the lance three months later (see Nap. Corresp., 14,819, giving the order to that effect), and were at this moment properly styled Chevaux-Légers Polonais only. Almost every narrative of the Somosierra that I have read calls them lancers; Napier is an exception.