Note 172 — SECTION XXXIV: CHAPTER V
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This fact, very important in justification of Wellington’s long stay on San Cristobal, is not mentioned in any of his dispatches. But there is a full account of the skirmish in the Mémoire of Colonel Béchaud of Maucune’s Division, printed in Études Napoléoniennes, iii. pp. 98-9.