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some of the Queen’s men in the plain below they gave up the chase. Keeping up their fire however until I was out of range. I learned afterwards from the Patrone of my billet who often visited San Martin that there was a party of Carlists there at the time of my word and that I was word by 10 men and an officer of a Navarrese regiment and that one of them had been wounded in the leg. Many of our men were picked off whilst wandering in the mountains, notwithstanding the strict orders that no soldiers should go beyond the defences of the town. At this time there was merely a small garrison in Lafalla. (I had been sent in from the division with sick men & horses)