[174] See table of losses in Appendix III. Of the regiments the chief losers were the 95th (13 men), and 52nd (18 men). [175] Of the fourteen French officers killed and wounded no less than thirteen were from the 25th Léger, and 27th and 50th Ligne of Mermet’s division. During this day the 6th Division, moving apart from the rest of the army, marched north-westward to Souré, and so got upon the western route to Coimbra. It was apparently Wellington’s intention to push this detachment round the western or seaward flank of the French army, so as to threaten with it the right wing of any position that the enemy might take up across the Coimbra _chaussée_. Indeed, having found no hostile force of any sort in front of it, the 6th Division was able to push in quite close to Coimbra on the next day, and to take up a position at Ega, which menaced Ney and Junot’s march across its front if they should still continue their retreat in the original direction. It was probably the movement of this division which caused the French to believe that Wellington had landed a detached force from ships at the mouth of the Mondego, and was pushing it forward towards Coimbra: an account of the march of this imaginary corps is to be found in several narratives[176]. [176] e. g. in Delagrave, p. 201: ‘Deux colonnes des siens remontaient le Mondégo, le long des rives: celle qui avait débarqué à Figuieras avait pour but principal de couvrir Coïmbre.... L’autre, qui remontait la rive gauche, avait été détachée de l’armée ennemie avec ordre de déborder et d’attaquer la droite des Français.’ Belmas also speaks of this imaginary force.