TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example 3^e or 106^{me}. There are only two Footnotes in the book. They have been placed at the end of the book. The anchors are denoted by [1] and [2]. This is volume 5 of 6. Similar to volume 4, this volume had a date (Year. Month) as a margin header on most pages. This information about the chronology of the narrative has been preserved as a Sidenote to the relevant paragraph on that page whenever the header date changed. The tables in this book are best viewed using a monospace font. With a few exceptions noted at the end of the book, variant spellings of names have not been changed. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. Volume 1 of this series can be found at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67318 Volume 2 of this series can be found at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67554 Volume 3 of this series can be found at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68187 Volume 4 of this series can be found at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68536 HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULA AND IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE, FROM THE YEAR 1807 TO THE YEAR 1814. BY W. F. P. NAPIER, C.B. _COLONEL H. P. FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF MILITARY SCIENCES._ VOL. V. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED ANSWERS TO SOME ATTACKS IN ROBINSON’S LIFE OF PICTON, AND IN THE QUARTERLY REVIEW; WITH COUNTER-REMARKS TO MR. DUDLEY MONTAGU PERCEVAL’S REMARKS UPON SOME PASSAGES IN COLONEL NAPIER’S FOURTH VOLUME OF THE HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. LONDON: THOMAS & WILLIAM BOONE, NEW BOND-STREET. MDCCCXXXVI. LONDON: MARCHANT, PRINTER, INGRAM-COURT, FENCHURCH-STREET. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Notice Page i Answer to Robinson’s Life of Picton ii Answer to the Quarterly Review xxiv Counter-Remarks, &c. xlvii BOOK XVII. CHAPTER I.