[25] Published 1831. A first-rate authority for Rifle Brigade and Light Division matters.
[26] Of the 29th Regt. Published only in 1887.
[27] Published 1867.
[28] Not to be confused with Sir George Bell.
[29] See for a dissection and disproof of this story Ropes’s Waterloo, pp. 238–242, 3rd edition. Mr. Horsburgh (p. 138) and others accept the story. But despite Lady Shelley’s note it is really incredible.
[30] For a dissection of Marbot’s blunders see the essay on his methods in Holland Rose’s Pitt and Napoleon, pp. 156–166.
[31] Blakeney wrote about 1835, at Paxos in the Ionian Isles; Smith in 1844, in India; Kincaid in 1847.
[32] His extraordinarily vivid narrative of the fortunes of Browne’s provisional battalion at Barrosa conflicts in detail with contemporary evidence which there is no reason to doubt, e.g. as to the numbers of the battalion, and as to the exact behaviour of General Whittingham.
[33] A strong case is that of the sergeant of the 43rd, mentioned above, on p. 7, who lets in scraps of Napier into his patchwork with the most unhappy effect.