[314] Autobiography of Sergt. Lawrence, p. 239.
[315] See above, p. 161.
[317] Cf. p. 266 above.
[318] Hennegan’s Seven Years’ Campaigning, i. p. 52.
[319] Dallas was taking care of the brigade of Skerrett, then marching (Oct., 1812) from Seville to Aranjuez, right across Central Spain.
[320] Autobiography of the Rev. Alexander Dallas, London, 1871, pp. 59, 60.
[321] For the maddening delays, caused by the impossibility of finding a mule-train ready to go back to the front, a good example may be found in the autobiography of Quartermaster Surtees of the 95th, stranded at Abrantes for unending weeks in the late autumn of 1812 with the new clothing of his battalion, which (as he knew) was suffering bitterly for want of it.
[322] See Donaldson’s Eventful Life of a Soldier, pp. 219, 220.
[323] Surtees’s Twenty-five Years in the Rifle Brigade, pp. 173, 175.