[224] In the Court-Martials on privates printed in General Orders, out of 280 trials I make out 80 certainly Irish names, and a good many more probably Irish—while there are only 23 Scots. There were certainly not four times as many Irish as Scots in the Peninsular Army, though there were more than twice as many.
[225] See also Stanhope’s Conversations with Wellington, p. 6.
[226] Twenty-five Years in the Rifle Brigade, pp. 47, 48.
[227] Both court-martialled, of course: see General Orders, vol. vii.
[228] This incident occurs in the unprinted letters of F. Monro, R.A., lent to me by his kinsfolk of to-day.
[229] One of the Duke’s acrid generalizations on this point was “the non-commissioned officers of the Guards regularly got drunk once a day, by eight in the evening, and got to bed soon after—but they always took care to do first what they were bid.”—Stanhope’s Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, p. 18.
[230] See Anton’s (42nd, Black Watch) Retrospect of a Military Life, pp. 239, 240.
[231] Retrospect of a Military Life, pp. 57, 58.
[232] Memoirs of Sergeant Morley, 5th Foot, p. 101.
[233] The survivors in 1809 were the regiments of de Meuron, Rolle, Dillon, and de Watteville.