[21] Lieut.-Colonel Pack’s narrative of his escape is inserted in the Appendix, [page 158].
[22] Lieut.-General Sir Harry Burrard landed during the action, but did not assume the command. Lieut.-General Sir Hew Dalrymple landed on the following day, and took command of the army. The force under Lieut.-General Sir John Moore was also disembarked during the negotiation, which subsequently took place, making the British army amount to thirty-two thousand men.
[24] Vide general orders of the 18th of January and 1st of February 1809; also a list of regiments employed under Lieut.-General Sir John Moore at Corunna, inserted in [pages 161, &c.] of the Appendix.
[25] The bonnet cocked is the pattern cap to which allusion is made in the above letter. This was in accordance with Lieut.-Colonel Pack’s application; and with respect to retaining the pipes, and dressing the pipers in the Highland garb, he added, “It cannot be forgotten how these pipes were obtained, and how constantly the regiment has upheld its title to them. These are the honorable characteristics which must preserve to future times the precious remains of the old corps, and of which I feel confident His Majesty will never have reason to deprive the Seventy-first regiment.”
[26] The remaining four companies of the first battalion of the Seventy-first regiment arrived in the Peninsula in the course of the year 1811, namely, two companies in March, and two in July 1811.
[27] Major General William Carr Beresford, marshal in the Portuguese service, was appointed a Knight of the Bath on the 16th of October 1810.
[28] Lieut.-General Rowland Hill was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Bath on the 22d of February 1812.
[29] When Lieut.-General Sir Rowland Hill was created a Peer in May 1814, his title was connected with the gallant affair above recorded, as he was styled Baron Hill of Almaraz, and of Hawkstone, in the county of Salop.
[30] The officers of the Seventy-first regiment, to mark their admiration and esteem for this distinguished officer, had a monument erected to his memory.