[346] Wellington to Torrens, Dispatches, x. pp. 77-8.

[347] The Duke to Wellington, Supplementary Dispatches, vii. p. 553, February 17.

[348] Ibid., vii. pp. 581-3.

[349] The 2/30th and 2/44th.

[350] The 51st, 68th, 2/83rd, and 94th.

[351] 2nd, 2/24th, 2/31st, 2/53rd, 2/58th, 2/66th.

[352] 7th, 10th, 15th, 18th Hussars.

[353] 2/59th (from Cadiz), 2/62nd, 76th, 77th (from Lisbon garrison), 2/84th, 85th.

[354] On all this the reader interested in military finance will find excellent commentaries in chap. i of vol. ix of Mr. Fortescue’s History of the British Army, which appeared three months after this chapter of mine was written.

[355] See Supplementary Dispatches, xiv. p. 212.