[194] Viz. the 1st Royals, 13th, 14th, and 16th Light Dragoons, and 1st Hussars, K.G.L. See General Orders, October 2, 1811.
[195] In the Talavera army, taking the general totals, there were 536 lieutenants to 259 ensigns; in the Bussaco army 624 to 237; in the 1811 army (March) 739 to 323—in each case more than two to one.
[196] Viz. killed, the Brigadier-Gen. Hoghton and one major, wounded two lieutenant-colonels and two majors.
[197] Picton, though wounded in the foot at Badajoz, rode with his division for some time after it marched from Estremadura for the North, but the wound getting inflamed he was compelled to go into hospital, and Wallace had his place for some weeks in June, Pakenham appearing as divisional commander in July.
[198] See the bitter remarks on pp. 367–369 on Blakeney’s Autobiography. For a number of illustrative anecdotes see Leach’s curious little book, Rambles on the Banks of Styx, which is full of Peninsular grievances.
[199] The allusion is to the obscure business of influence in distributing commissions said to have been used by the Duke of York’s mistress, Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke.
[200] For more of this pamphlet, see Stocqueler’s Personal History of the Horse Guards, pp. 60–67.
[201] For an astounding story of an ensign who had been a billiard-marker in Dublin, and who was ultimately cashiered for theft, see Col. Bunbury’s Reminiscences, vol. i. pp. 26–28.
[202] Memoirs of Captain George Ellers, 12th Foot, p. 43.
[203] See the instances in General Orders for April 23, 1810, and July 16, 1812.