[254] Case of Corporal Hammond of the 87th, January 24, 1810.
[255] Viz. 5/60th, 97th, 1, 2, 5, 7 Line of the K.G.L., 1 and 2 Light K.G.L., Brunswick Oels and Chasseurs Britanniques.
[256] The tale comes from p. xxxi. of the Introduction to the Collected General Orders.
[257] General Orders, September 22, 1809.
[258] See the printed report of the Long Court-Martial on Colonel Quentin, London, 1814, p. 272.
[259] Printed in General Orders, vol. v. 1813, the accused being Col. Archdall of the 1/40th.
[260] Sergeant Donaldson’s Eventful Life of a Soldier, pp. 145, 146.
[261] There are Peninsular-period Good-Conduct medals for the 10th and 11th Hussars (starting 1812), 5th Foot (Northumberland Fusiliers), 7th Fusiliers, 22nd, 38th, 52nd, 71st, 74th, 88th, 95th, 97th, and some other corps, not to speak of others which were medals for special deeds of courage or for marksmanship.
[262] See Hope’s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, 1808–15, pp. 459–60.
[263] This is said to have been the case in the 1/48th when it was under Colonel Donnellan, who fell at Talavera.