[104] Memoirs of Sergeant Donaldson (94th), ii. p. 217, and cf. for a similar story, Rifleman Harris, pp. 30, 31.
[105] See Sidney’s Life of Lord Hill, p. 228.
[106] He wanted, he wrote, “to have a place of meeting where they can enjoy social intercourse combined with economy, and cultivate old acquaintance formed on service.” Hitherto “officers coming to town for a short period were driven into expensive and bad taverns and coffee-houses, without a chance of meeting their friends or any good society.”
[107] Twenty-five Years in the Rifle Brigade, by Surtees of the 95th.
[108] Caddell of the 28th, p. 99.
[109] Especially Bunbury, Dallas, and Blakeney.
[110] “Le général était de haute stature,” says Vigo-Roussillon: “il avait les cheveux tous blancs, et était encore alerte et très vif, quoiqu’il avait soixante ans. Sa physionomie noble et ouverte m’avait inspiré le respect, même sur le champ de bataille.”—Revue des deux Mondes, August, 1891.
[111] Stanhope’s Conversations with Wellington, p. 69.
[112] Kincaid, p. 116.
[113] That he made the request is definitely stated in Stanhope’s Conversations, p. 69.