[294] Sergeant Donaldson, p. 155: he is speaking of the last assault on Badajoz.
[295] Instead of the brass plate with regimental badge or number, the Light infantry and rifles had only a bugle-horn.
[296] Light infantry had a small green tuft on the front of the shako; regiments of the rest of the line a larger upright plume fixed on the side.
[297] Cooke of the 43rd says (in his Narrative of Events in the South of France, p. 67) that “distorted by alternate rain and sunshine, as well as by having served as pillows and nightcaps, our caps had assumed the most monstrous and grotesque shapes.”
[298] Grattan’s Connaught Rangers, p. 51.
[299] See Leslie’s edition of the Dickson Papers, ii. p. 994.
[300] Memoirs of Captain Ellers, p. 124 (dealing with the year 1800). “He never wore powder though it was the regulation to do so. His hair was cropped close. I have heard him say that hair powder was very prejudicial to the health, as impeding perspiration, and he was no doubt right.”
[301] See for example the description of the 43rd preparing to storm Rodrigo, in Grattan, p. 145.
[302] Military Journal of Col. Leslie of Balquhain, p. 229.
[303] Memoirs of Captain Cooke, ii. p. 76.