[304] Sir C. Mansfield Clarke, Bart, G.C.B., now Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Malta.
[305] Now General Sir John French, K.C.B., commanding at Aldershot.
[306] In discussing a possible successor to the Aldershot Command, he wrote, 6th October 1889: “It would be a real calamity to the Army that you should leave it.”
[307] Now Lieutenant-General C. J. Burnett, C.B.
[308] As indeed I have often been, but may say now that its statements, and awkward questions, have enabled me, since I became a General, to check many undesirable practices.
[309] Now the General commanding at Aldershot.
[310] On the 2nd October 1891: “No man has in my time effected more useful Military work than you, and the Army is beginning to realise this as fully as I do.”
[311] Such rigidity of movement was suitable to the smooth-bore musket, “Brown Bess,” used in the Peninsular, armed with which our troops embarked for the East, in 1854, and which the 4th Division still carried at the Alma, as sufficient Minie rifles had not been issued to equip it. Unfortunately in the eighties all the Heads of the Army had not, like Higginson, appreciated the history of the Campaigns of 1866, 1870–71, and the bloody lessons around Plevna in 1877.
[312] Now Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Hamilton, K.C.B., Southern Command.
[313] Killed in the Boer War.