Note 538 — SECTION XXXIII: CHAPTER VI

Marmont says that it was ‘environ trois heures du soir.’ But I think that about 3.45 should be given as the hour, since Maucune only left the woods at 2 o’clock, and had to march on to the plateau, to take up his position, to send out his voltigeurs, and to get them close in to Arapiles before he would have sent such a message to his chief. Foy says ‘between 3 and 4 p.m.’