Note 166 — CONTINUATION OF THE SIEGE.

The incident is thus alluded to in a letter written on the day following the escape of the French garrison of Almeida, by the Duke of Wellington to Viscount Beresford:—“Villa Formosa, 11th. May, 1811. You will hardly believe that we were obliged to pick up the French shot in our camp to make up ammunition for Arentschild’s guns, his reserve having been left behind at Saragossa.”