Note 535 — Chapter I

French observers in the fort noted one attempt made by men of their own nationality, from the Chasseurs Britanniques. A young officer, calling ‘Je monte, suivez-moi,’ got to the top of the ladder with two or three of his soldiers, ran some feet forward up the lip of the breach, and was then bayoneted. This must have been Lieutenant Dufief of the C.B., the only officer of the corps returned as hurt in the storm. See Lapéne’s Campagne de 1810-11 dans le Midi de l’Espagne, p. 210.