The Anglo-Portuguese infantry and cavalry, however, were not moved till the guns were far on their way. It was Wellington’s intention to show a large army on the frontier of Leon till the last possible moment. He himself kept his old headquarters at Freneda, near Fuentes de Oñoro, till March 5th, in order that Marmont might be led to persist in the belief that his attention was still concentrated on the North. But, starting from February 19th, his divisions, one by one, had made their unostentatious departure for the South: on the day when he himself followed them only one division (the 5th) and one cavalry brigade (V. Alten’s) still remained behind the Agueda. The rest were at various stages on their way to Elvas. Most of the divisions marched by the route Sabugal, Castello Branco, Villa Velha, Niza. But the 1st Division went by Abrantes, in order to pick up there its clothing for the new year, which had been brought up the Tagus in boats from Lisbon to that point. Some of the cavalry and the two independent Portuguese brigades of Pack and Bradford, whose winter cantonments had been rather to the rear, had separate routes of their own, through places so far west as Thomar[243] and Coimbra. The three brigades of the 2nd Division, under Hill, which had been brought up to Castello Branco at the beginning of January, were at the head of the marching army, and reached Portalegre, via Villa Velha, long before the rest of the troops were across the Tagus. Indeed, the first of them (Ashworth’s Portuguese) started as early as February 2nd, and was at Castello de Vide, near Elvas, by February 8th, before the troops behind the Agueda had begun to move[244]. [243] This was the case with G. Anson’s brigade and Bradford’s Portuguese infantry. Pack went by Coimbra, Slade’s cavalry brigade by Covilhão, and the horse artillery of Bull and McDonald with it. [244] Nothing is rarer, as all students of the Peninsular War know to their cost, than a table of the exact movements of Wellington’s army on any march. For this particular movement the whole of the detailed orders happen to have been preserved in the D’Urban Papers. The starting-places of the units were:-- 1st Division--Gallegos, Carpio, Fuentes de Oñoro. 3rd Division--Zamorra (by the Upper Agueda). 4th Division--San Felices and Sesmiro. 5th Division--Ciudad Rodrigo. 6th Division--Albergaria (near Fuente Guinaldo). 7th Division--Payo (in the Sierra de Gata). Light Division--Fuente Guinaldo. Bradford’s Portuguese--Barba del Puerco. Pack’s Portuguese--Campillo and Ituero.