[37] Succeeded by Soult in November 1808.
[38] Oman, vol. i. pp. 640–45.
[39] “The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith,” 1787–1819. Edited by G. C. Moore Smith, M.A. (London Ed. 1910).
[40] “A Boy in the Peninsular War,” edited by Julian Sturgis (London, 1899), p. 313.
[41] Ibid. p. 311.
[42] Vol. i. p. 235 n.
[43] The total loss of the regiment was 190, by far the heaviest of those engaged.
[44] The case of Peter Findlater at Dargai is almost an exact parallel.
[45] See also some remarks in “The Croker Papers,” vol. ii. pp. 121–22.
[46] As to the merits and demerits of national resistance, see some wise remarks in Arnold’s “Introductory Lectures on Modern History,” pp. 158–64.