[206] Now Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge, K.C.B., K.C.S.I.
[207] Now General Slade, C.B., Royal Artillery.
[208] See [page 352].
[209] A cow is equal to £3, and a calf 30s.
[210] Killed at Ulundi, 4th July 1879.
[211] The War Minister, apprehensive of criticism in the House of Commons, declined to allow me to draw any, even half-pay as a Colonel, for the six months I was absent from the Command.
[212] They had broken up their laager at Leo Kop that morning.
[213] Rope by which oxen pull a waggon.
[215] I had thought much during the weary hours spent on the post-cart between Maritzburg and Newcastle of the Military Situation, and of the Duke of Wellington’s views expressed in his letter to Viscount Castlereagh, dated the 1st of August 1808. “... You may depend, I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one moment sooner than they may be commenced, in order that I may acquire the credit of success.” And again, a year later, in a letter written at Badajos to Marshal Beresford, he insists “above all on a determination in the Superiors to obey the spirit of the orders they receive, let what will be the consequences.”