[57] Its object was to destroy the ships and dockyards at Antwerp.
[58] General Sir George T. Napier, pp. 120–21.
[59] Really his two reserve divisions, consisting of some 8000 men. See Oman, vol. iii. p. 432, and post, p. 139.
[60] September 1810.
[61] On the 27th September 1910, the centenary of the battle, an anniversary banquet was given at Busaco, which was attended by Wellington’s grandson. King Manoel—now dethroned—signed a decree reaffirming the duke’s Portuguese titles of Duke of Vittoria, Marquis of Torres Vedras, and Count of Vimiero. Celebrations were also held on the site of the battle.
[62] The writer is speaking literally.
[63] The usual French mode of attack.
[64] Not Marshal Soult, but his nephew.
[65] The Proclamation is printed in full in Gurwood’s edition of “Wellington’s Dispatches,” vol. vii. pp. 455–7.
[66] Lady Butler’s picture, “Steady, the Drums and Fifes,” represents this regiment drawn up on the ridge.