[149] A French buccaneer who captured Carthagena in 1697.
[150] Wentworth to Newcastle, 26th April 1741.
[151] Vernon to Newcastle, 30th May 1741.
[152] Wentworth to Newcastle, 26th April 1741.
[153] Return of 30th May 1741.
[154] Wentworth to Newcastle, 20th December 1741.
[155] Ibid., 1st March 1742. Return of 20th January to 23rd February: Dead, of the four old regiments 109, of the three new regiments 165, of the Americans 99.
[156] Wentworth to Newcastle, 31st March 1742.
[157] Of Wolfe's regiment only ninety-six officers and men returned to England, these representing the survivors not of that regiment only, but of another that had been drafted into it.
[158] Carlyle, Frederick the Great, vol. iii. p. 396.