Note 740 — SECTION XXIX: CHAPTER II
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Thiébault, in his elaborate account of the skirmish (Mémoires, iv. pp. 522-5), says that he did not lose Aldea da Ponte, but I prefer to take Wellington’s definite statement that he did, supported by those of Vere (the Assistant-Quartermaster-General of the 4th Division) and Lord Londonderry—both eye-witnesses.