Note 710 — SECTION XVI: CHAPTER VIII

Boothby, A Prisoner of France, p. 40. For the adventures of two wounded officers on their weary way to Truxillo see the Diary of Hawker, and the narrative of Colonel Leslie. The latter made a personal appeal to Cuesta, whose carriage he had met by the roadside. The old general sent for the Alcalde, and made him provide a mule—though it turned out to be a very bad one—for the wounded officer. This small fact to his credit needs recording, after the copious abuse heaped on him.