[55] Fortescue, vol. i. p. 506.
[56] See [Appendix 2 (B)].
[57] Stearne.
[58] See [Appendix 2 (B)].
[59] See [Map No. 1].
[60] Students of the literature of the Peninsular War will remember frequent mention of the good terms existing between the British and French soldiers when they met on outpost. Things seem to have been much the same in the time of Marlborough, for Millner says that on the night before Malplaquet “several of both sides had frequent and friendly Commerce and Conferences with one another, as if we had been in an alliance together; but at last each man being called to his respective post, our Commerce was turn’d to, and swallowed up in blood, as in the Salutations of the day after appeared.”
[61] The Malplaquet roll (Dalton, vol. 6) gives the names of the officers who were at the battle of Malplaquet. The asterisks show those who fought at Blenheim, not necessarily in the XVIIIth regiment.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel—R. Kane.*
Brevet Majors—M. Leathes* and F. de La Penotière.*
Captains—P. D’Offranville,* N. Hussey,* R. Parker,* W. Weddall,* H. Wingfield, W. Leathes,* Ant. Pujolas,* Jas. Lilly.*