Note 495 — SECTION XV: CHAPTER II
Reading edition
‘I have been assured,’ says Napier (ii. 127), ‘by an officer of Ney’s personal staff [Col. D’Esménard] that he rashly concluded that personal feelings had swayed Soult to betray the 6th Corps. In this error he returned in wrath to Corunna.’ But was his conclusion rash, or wrong?