Note 506 — SECTION VII: CHAPTER VI

Arteche says that ‘all the intact troops,’ i.e. the whole 3rd Estremaduran division, fell back on the Somosierra. But this is incorrect, for a dispatch of General Trias (Madrid Gazette of November 22) shows that he only took two or three battalions to the pass, and even some of these must afterwards have gone onto Segovia,for only one Estremaduran corps (the Badajoz Regiment) is found in the list of San Juan’s little army (Arteche, iii. 496).