For Badajoz had semaphore communication with Elvas, and on the preceding day the Portuguese General Leite had telegraphed to him, by Wellington’s orders, that Beresford had been detached with two divisions to hasten to his aid on March 8th.
As a matter of fact, Beresford’s movement into Estremadura was retarded, and his corps did not move off for some days later, but Imaz did not know this, and he was certainly guilty of concealing from his officers that prompt succour had been promised, and was actually upon its way.
The whole responsibility for the surrender falls on him, because he allowed Alvo, and the other voters for capitulation, to produce uncontradicted the statement that no relief was probable, while he knew himself that it had been promised.
)In 1815, Fernando VII appointed Imaz subinspector of the 4th Division of the Provincial Militias of Galicia, and in La Coruña he participated in quashing Juan Díaz Porlier's pronunciamiento.
[1] In May 1819, Imaz was appointed commander general of Tuy, a post from which he was dismissed on 23 February 1820, following Rafael del Riego's uprising the previous month.