Note 774 — SECTION XXIX: CHAPTER III

Hill in his dispatch says that the peasantry gave Girard no news of his approach. But in Blakeney’s interesting narrative of this campaign there is a story told that two Afrancesados warned the Frenchman of Hill’s approach, and that he refused to credit them. This was told to Blakeney by his prisoner, Colonel the Prince of Aremberg, commanding the 27th Chasseurs. See Blakeney, p. 236.