Note 891 — SECTION XXXVIII: CHAPTER III

Tulloh (commanding 2nd division batteries) to Dickson, in Dickson Papers, p. 1022. Wellington’s censure of Stewart may be found in Dispatches, x. p. 588, and his reply to the latter’s self-defence in xi. p. 107. The details are hard to follow: Wellington says that Pringle ordered the guns to be taken off by the road to Maya—that Stewart directed that they were to go back, and look to ‘the mountain road to Elizondo’ as their proper line of retreat. When it became necessary for them to retire at all costs, that road was already in the hands of the French. But I do not know precisely what Wellington meant by the mountain-road to Elizondo. Does it mean the track by which the 28th and 34th had retired?