Note 348 — Chapter I

D’Urban visited Ballasteros’s camp on the 14th and settled with him all the details of a joint march against Maransin (whom they wrongly supposed to be d’Aremberg, not knowing that the latter had returned to Seville with the cavalry). ‘If d’Aremberg takes the bait, and follows Ballasteros, he must be lost altogether; even if he halts at Xeres we ought to get hold of him,’ writes D’Urban in his diary. But Maransin fled on the morning of the 15th.