Note 662 — SECTION XXXIII: CHAPTER IX

There are very full narratives of Majalahonda to be got from D’Urban’s correspondence, Reiset’s memoirs, and the letters of Dyneley, who was lucky enough to escape a few days later and rejoin his troop. Schwertfeger’s History of the German Legion gives the facts about the part taken by the K.G.L. Light Battalion, whose service Wellington ignored in his dispatch—wrongly stating that it was not engaged. Treillard’s dispatch is a fine piece of exaggeration, but useful as giving the official French view of the affair.