[244] From a memorandum by Benjamin D’Urban, Beresford’s Quartermaster-General, or rather Chief of the Staff, in the unpublished D’Urban papers.
[245] From a letter to his friend, J. Wilson, in the unpublished D’Urban Correspondence.
[246] General Orders, Santa Marinha, March 25, 1811.
[247] The case of an officer who openly cohabited with the wife of a private, and fought with and thrashed her not-unreasonably jealous husband.
[248] See General Orders, July 2, 1813.
[249] There is a long quarrel of this sort between Colonel Cochrane of the 36th and General A. Campbell, whose original cause was in details of mismanagement at the escape of Brennier from Almeida.
[250] General Orders, Lesaca, September 20, 1813. In this case a lieutenant of the 5/60th had been condemned for violently resisting the turning out of his horses from a stable by his senior, “using opprobrious and disgraceful language” and threatening to strike him.
[251] General Orders, Garris, February 24, 1814.
[252] Ibid., Freneda, February 3, 1813.
[253] See Wellington Dispatches, vol. ii., pp. 330 and 369, and for his recapture Stepney’s Diary, p. 55.