[426] Letter of F. Monro, R.A., lent me by his representative. See Fortnightly Review for July 1912.

[427] Nos. 2 and 3 in the map respectively.

[428] Of course a few rounds more for the howitzers could have been borrowed from the field-batteries with the divisions. For the 18-pounders, the really important guns, there was no such resource for borrowing.

[429] Acting vice G. Anson, absent.

[430] The 68th lost four officers and 46 men killed and wounded, and one officer taken prisoner. For a good account of the fight see the Memoirs of Green of the 68th, pp. 89-90.

[431] See Tomkinson’s Diary, p. 165.

[432] Tomkinson’s Diary, p. 166.

[433] Wellington to Liverpool, Salamanca, June 25, in Dispatches, ix. p. 252.

[434] The first two were great fire-eaters, and always urged action.

[435] Foy’s Vie militaire, ed. Girod de l’Ain, pp. 165-6.