Note 395 — SECTION XXVI: CHAPTER II

For an excellent account of the first day’s fighting in Fuentes village, see the diary of ‘J. S.’ of the 71st in Constable’s Memorials of the late War, i. 87-9. The regiment charged right up the French slope after recovering the place, and was attacked ineffectually by cavalry. Marbot (ii. p. 459) has a story that the second attack of the French would have succeeded if the Hanoverian Legion, in its red coats, had not been fired into from the rear in mistake by the 66th Ligne, which took them for British.