[107] The Crimea in 1854–’94.
[108] General Pennyfather led many charges at Inkerman, where Sir George Cathcart was killed at the head of two companies, and as Generals did in war, so did they then in peace.
[109] The Right Hon. F. Wrench, Irish Land Commissioner.
[110] The Right Hon. Arthur Balfour, M.P.
[111] Which pace I was bound not to exceed, neither could we trot farther than a mile at one time.
[112] Later, Lord Wolverton. I knew him in the sixties, as he rode brilliantly with the Essex Stag Hounds.
[113] The fort, St. George della Mina, named from the gold mines in the vicinity, is said to have been built by French merchants in 1383, though the Portuguese allege that they built the first fort. The Dutch held it from 1637 to 1872, when England took it over. St. George stands on a rock close to the sea, just above high water, and St. Iago, a fort inland, 100 feet higher, commands both St. George and the town built on either side of the Beyah backwater.
[114] Trade gin.
[115] The English Government took over the Fort in 1872.
[116] Now General Sir Henry Brackenbury, G.C.B.