[56] i.e. tinder.
[57] Possibly not, as there was a composite battalion at Tangier composed of companies from various regiments, including one of marines.
[58] "Five or six hundred seamen and others of the Marine Regiment."—Reminiscences of Cork, by Crofton Croker (MS.).
[59] Lutterell.
[60] Several years ago the Kaiser bestowed this distinction on a Hessian Regiment on account of its ancestors—so it is stated—having participated in the capture. I have studied the taking of Gibraltar pretty thoroughly, but have never found any mention of a German regiment taking part in it.
[61] Life and Adventures of Matthew Bishop. London, 1744.
[62] Quoted in Cassell's British Sea Kings and Sea Fights.
[63] A soldier who used to be placed in front of a regiment, by whose motions the movements of the exercises with arms were directed. In some regiments at the present day the right-hand man steps a pace forward on the order "Fix bayonets", to give the time and ensure all moving together.
[64] Blackwood's Magazine, October, 1858.
[65] Now Brigadier-General Marchant, C.B., A.D.C.