[114] Grattan’s Adventures with the Connaught Rangers, p. 16.
[115] Grattan, pp. 116, 117.
[116] See McCarthy’s Siege of Badajoz, p. 35, and Robinson’s Life of Picton, ii. p. 170.
[117] McCarthy’s Siege of Badajoz, p. 41.
[118] Robinson’s Life of Picton, ii. p. 390.
[119] See especially McCarthy, quoted above, and Macpherson (notes in Robinson, ii. pp. 394–397).
[120] Cole’s Peninsular Generals, ii. p. 84.
[121] His brother, Sir Charles Craufurd, had married the Dowager Duchess of Newcastle, and as the duke was a minor, his mother and her husband disposed of the Pelham pocket-boroughs and other patronage.
[122] He was absent on leave from the winter of 1810 till May 1811, and only just rejoined in time for the battle of Fuentes de Oñoro.
[123] All this comes from Shaw-Kennedy’s Diary, which is printed at length in a most unlikely place,—the Appendix to Lord F. Fitzclarence’s Manual of Outpost Duties, a book of the 1840’s.