[284] History of the Peninsular War, vol. iv. p. 276. Also mentioned in Tomkinson’s Diary, p. 185.
[285] Memoirs of Lejeune, vol. ii. p. 108. I am a little inclined to think that this may have been the household establishment of Hill’s senior aide-de-camp, Currie, as the sight was seen by Lejeune in the Elvas-Olivenza direction, where the 2nd division was then quartered.
[286] See Dickson Papers I., p. 448.
[287] This letter, found among Lord Liverpool’s papers in 1869, was communicated to me by Mr. F. Turner of Frome.
[288] See Connolly’s Royal Sappers and Miners, pp. 187–8 and 194.
[289] Jones, Sieges of the Peninsula, i. p. 169.
[290] General Orders, p. 275.
[291] Jones’ Sieges of the Peninsula, ii. p. 97.
[292] Grattan’s With the Connaught Rangers, pp. 193, 194.
[293] Grattan, dealing with the Storm of Rodrigo, p. 145.