Note 500 — SECTION XXXIII: CHAPTER V
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Napier says that this move was made on the night of the 20th, under cover of the smoke of the already-lighted camp-fires of the army. This is contradicted by Vere’s journal of march of the 4th Division, by Leith Hay’s Journal [’at daylight we marched to the Heights of San Cristoval’], by Tomkinson’s diary, and D’Urban, Geo. Simonds, and many others who speak of the move as being early on the 21st.