[306] Wellington to Bathurst. Dispatches, x. p. 177.
[307] Ibid., p. 207, March 17.
[308] By an intercepted letter from the King to Reille, dated March 14, now in the ‘Scovell Cyphers,’ which mentions both facts.
[309] Wellington to Graham, April 7. Dispatches, x. p. 270.
[310] In the ‘Scovell Cyphers,’ like the dispatch quoted above.
[311] Wellington to Bathurst, January 26. Dispatches, x. p. 39; cf. ibid., p. 256.
[312] Supplementary Dispatches, vii. pp. 601-2, April 7.
[313] Wellington to Bathurst. Dispatches, x. p. 307.
[314] For details see Schwertfeger’s History of the K.G.L., vol. i, pp. 500-50.
[315] See letters in von Wacholz’s Diary, pp. 311-12. It is doubtful if the men, largely waifs and prisoners of all nations, felt the same zeal as the officers.