Note 281 — SORTIE OF BAYONNE.
Reading edition
“At the close of the action, the dead and wounded, along the high road and on the ground adjoining it, were lying thicker than perhaps, in an equal extent, on any field of battle which took place during the war, not excepting Waterloo, although the latter continued eight hours, whilst this was over in three. Lord Wellington, in riding over the ground, remarked, that he had never observed so large a number of killed in so small a compass.”
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Return of the killed, wounded, and missing, in the operation of the army, under the command of Field-Marshal the Marquis of Wellington, K. G., in a sortie made by the garrison of Bayonne, on the morning of the 14th of April, 1814.
Officers.Sergeants.Rank and File.Total.Horses.
Killed 8 3 139 150 0
Wounded 36 28 393 457 1
Missing 6 7 223 236 0
Wellington’s Despatches.