Note 476 — SECTION XXVI: CHAPTER V

Either Napier never saw the ground of Albuera (as Beresford suggests in the Strictures on Napier’s History, p. 207) or else he had forgotten it. The only good plan available was D’Urban’s, and this Napier used (a copy of it is among his portfolio of maps in the Bodleian Library), memory or hypothesis exaggerating into hills and ravines the very gentle ups and downs shown on the map.