[[21]] Salamanca.—Ed.
[[22]] Captain Cadoux.
[[23]] Joseph Dornford was originally at Trinity College, Cambridge, which he left for the Peninsula. On returning home he entered at Wadham College, Oxford, and in 1816 was elected a Fellow of Oriel. After some years of College work he retired to a country living, first in Northamptonshire and afterwards in Devonshire.—See Rev. T. Mozley's Reminiscences of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement, ii. 55, 78.—Ed.
[[24]] I have since heard that he made a most excellent divine and a most worthy member of society.—G. S.
[[25]] The Château d'Urdanches near Arcangues was thus styled by the British, after its owner.
[[26]] I suffered much from this wound until the bone united. I was put into a house for the night with many of my wounded comrades.—G. S.
[[27]] I.e., to "tell off" or punish.—Ed.
[[28]] Marshal Ney says in a report that Buonaparte had taken away his reserve, or he would have annihilated us. In this fight he must have had three to one, with the advantage of cavalry.—G. S.
[[29]] James Robson, the regimental Assistant-Surgeon.
[[30]] Lieutenant Elliott D. Johnston of the Rifles was being conducted on horseback towards the village of Waterloo by two Rifle Men when a French cannon-ball, of which there were many bounding along the road, struck him and killed him on the spot. This was evidently unknown to Simmons when he wrote this letter. It is hardly to be wondered at that this "delicate young man" died.—Ed.