Note 167.1 — Chapter XXIII

The village of Sula, and the ground on each side of it, as also the road by which the columns of attack advanced, were heaped with killed and wounded, all lying within a small space of ground. Whilst we were thus employed, General Regnier made an attack equally desperate on Generals Picton, Leith, and Pack, far to our right. Those troops served Regnier’s corps with much the same description of sauce which the Light Division had administered to Marshal Ney’s. We were at too great a distance to distinguish what passed between 167the troops of Picton, Leith, and Regnier; but we were near enough to witness the gallant manner in which General Pack’s Portuguese brigade charged and drove back with the bayonet a formidable attack made on it by the enemy, covering the ground with their dead. This was the first trial made of the new Portuguese levies, organised by British officers, and it proved most satisfactory.