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Frenchman who was wounded in three places on the other. About 
10 o’clock in came Macdonald who seeing me inclined to sleep recom- 
mended me not to move till the next morning. He used all his 
endeavours to get the men off in cars or spring waggons to Vitoria, but 
as these carriages are all attached to particular divisions and none to 
the cavalry itself, and were employed in their own departments, it could 
not be done. As he was absolutely obliged to rejoin his troop, we 
determined that I should ride in to Vitoria in the morning, get settled 
if possible in a house, and as head-quarters were there, make such 
representation to Colonel May as would ensure some assistance for the 
men; this settled, he left me to my contempiation. I must here own 
that the enthusiasm and glory of the moment had so got the better of 
me that I had not till now turned my thoughts to the Author of all 
destinies and events ; may I say here that I recollected my duty in this 
point and waited with patience for day-light. 
22nd June.—As soon as the sun rose I tried to move, but found my 
leg had become stiff and swelled and perfectly motionless, so that I cut 
a strange figure supported by two men. I had great difficulty in 
mounting, but when on managed tolerably well, Sutton leading my 
horse very slowly. On all sides of the road the dead, dying, and 
wounded yet unmoved, were to be seen, and I found reason to thank 
my stars that I had come off so well. ‘The road was tedious to Vitoria, 
and I lost my patience several times at the carelessness of people with 
baggage and horses, who seemed to think nothing of jostling against 
me; muleteers firing muskets in every direction made my horse start, 
much to my annoyance. On arriving at Vitoria the first intelligence I 
could get was that there was no hospital established there ; the idea of 
going back a league almost unmanned me, and the difficulty I found in 
getting into a house to sit down till I could learn some certain intelli- 
gence was in my situation not enviable. At length I found the house of 
Bradley,’ our head-quartersregimental surgeon, he was out, and his room 
up two pairs of stairs. The people actually refused, notwithstanding the 
state I was in, to open the lower room for me to sit down. I heartily 
cursed their inhumanity and went to another house where I remained 
whilst Sutton went to find Harding. Through his kindness I soon got 
removed to Colonel Dickson’s quarter and put to bed, and Colonel 
Dickson moving immediately after with head-quarters the people of 
the house promised to take care of me, and Bradley was left to look 
after me and Woodyear? who is likewise wounded. I had the satisfac- 
tion to find too that all my men had been taken to hospital. 
23rd June.—In consequence of my leg being swelled no further 
dressing is yet put to it, and operations are confined to bathing it with 
goulard water, to which Iam happy to say the inflammation begins to 
give way. 
There have been taken 151 pieces of artillery, 60 caissons, 70,000 
rounds of gun and 1,000,000 of small-arm cartridges, nearly all the 
1 Surgeon Nicholas P. Bradley (Kane’s List, No. 78). 
2 Lieutenant Lumley Woodyear (Kane’s List, No. 1343), Acting Brigade-Major, R.A, died at 
Bilboa, 1st September, 1813, from wounds received at the battle of Vitoria: 
