Note 686 — SECTION XVI: CHAPTER VIII

For excellent accounts of this forced march see Col. Leach (95th), Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier (pp. 81-2), and Sir George Napier’s Autobiography, pp. 108-10. The distance was forty-three miles, not as W. Napier states sixty-two. That all the stragglers met on the way were not Spaniards is unfortunately evident from both narratives. Nor were all the British stragglers non-combatants.