Note 498 — SECTION XXXVI: CHAPTER V

These sort of courtesies were most misplaced. The subject of discussion was the exchange of the British officer captured at Morales (see above, p. 332) for a French officer whom Gazan was anxious to get back. See Dispatches, x. 421, Wellington to Gazan; Jourdan’s Mémoires, p. 467; and the narrative of the flag-bearer in Maxwell’s Peninsular Sketches, ii. pp. 97-8.