Note 222 — VITORIA.
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“We chanced to meet a Curé on the French side of the Pyrenees, at whose house General Merle had been quartered, shortly after the battle, who said that the general was furious, exclaiming against Joseph, and vowing that the matériel of three armies (those of the south, the centre, and of Portugal) had been sacrificed to save fifty putaines and their baggage.”—Peninsular Recollections.