FOOTNOTES:

[10] A memoir of Lieut.-General Sir Charles William Doyle, C.B., is inserted in the Appendix, page 92.

[11] Lieut.-General Sir William Napier’s History of the Peninsular War.

[12] The following corps were employed in the battle of Barrosa on the 5th of March 1811, viz.—

2nd Hussars, King’s German Legion.	47th Foot, 2nd batt. (flank comp.)
Royal Artillery.	67th Foot, 2nd batt.
Royal Engineers.	82nd Foot, 2nd batt. (flank comp.)
1st Foot Guards, 2nd batt.	87th Foot, 2nd batt.
Coldstream Guards, 2nd batt.	Rifle Brigade	{ 2nd batt.
3rd Foot Guards, 2nd batt.		{ 3rd batt.
9th Foot, 1st batt. (flank companies.)	20th Portuguese Regiment.
28th Foot, 1st batt.	Royal Staff Corps, 1 comp.

[13] In the midst of the engagement, Serjeant Patrick Masterson seized and kept possession of the Eagle of the eighth French regiment of light infantry (which was the first taken in action since the commencement of the Peninsular war), and for which His Royal Highness the Prince Regent promoted the serjeant to an ensigncy in the Royal York Light Infantry Volunteers; he was subsequently removed to the Eighty-seventh regiment.

Volunteer de Courcy Ireland, and Serjeant-Major McKeldon, were also promoted to be ensigns for their conduct in this action.

[14] In a letter, dated the 21st of January 1812, from General Viscount Wellington, K.B., to the Earl of Liverpool, Secretary of State, appeared the following tribute from that illustrious commander to the conduct of the troops at Tarifa:—“I cannot refrain from expressing my admiration of the conduct of Colonel Skerrett, and the brave troops under his command, nor from recommending them to the protection of your Lordship.”

[15] History of the War in the Peninsular and in the South of France, by Lieut.-General Sir William Napier, K.C.B.

[16] Major-General John Randoll McKenzie, who fell at Talavera on the 28th of July 1809.

[17] Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Picton, G.C.B., who was killed at Waterloo on the 18th of June 1815.