[65] See [Appendix 2 (B)].
[66] See [Appendix 2 (B)].
[67] See [Appendix 9].
[68] It is not known whether any of the XVIIIth were included, but it is probable that Kane brought some of his old regiment with him to the post of danger.
[69] Sayer’s ‘History of Gibraltar,’ p. 295.
[70] Sayer, p. 197. It would be interesting to know if the staff officer who evolved the idea of thus “employing the unfortunate Israelites” was heavily in debt to them!
[71] Sayer, p. 204. This writer mentions that out of the sixty guns in position at the beginning of the bombardment twenty-three were dismounted in seven days.
[72] In 1732 Cosby was succeeded by Sir Charles Hotham, Bart., who on his appointment three years later to a regiment of Guards was replaced by Major-General John Armstrong. See [Appendix 9].
[73] See [Map No. 2].
[74] The only mention of British losses at Ostend in the despatches is a casual reference by Cumberland in a letter, where he speaks of the seventy English soldiers taken by the French in the attack on the covered way.