[227] Ligonier to Harrington, Sept. 24 Oct. 5, Sept. 28 Oct. 9.
[228] Ligonier to Harrington, Sept. 28 Oct. 9, Oct. 20 31 .
[229] 1st, 15th, 28th, 30th, 39th, and 42nd Foot.
[230] Cumberland to Harrington, Feb. 6 17 , March 20 31 , March 24 April 4.
[231] Cumberland to Chesterfield, May 1 12 , 9 20 .
[232] Cumberland blamed the Austrian General, Baroney, and his irregulars for supine negligence on the march. Cumberland to Chesterfield, July 6 17 1747.
[233] The regiments present at Lauffeld were the Greys, 4th Hussars, Inniskillings, 7th Hussars, and Cumberland's dragoons, one battalion each of the 1st and 3rd Guards, 3rd, 4th, 13th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 25th, 32nd, 33rd, 36th, 37th, 48th Foot. The two last had no casualties.
[234] Cumberland to Newcastle, March 18 29 , March 22 April 2, March 25 April 6.
[235] Bruce's Annals of the East India Company, vol. ii. pp. 125, 129, 152, 153, 156.
[236] Colonel Malleson (French in India, p. 306), commenting on this action, says that Clive "allowed his dislike of the great French statesman to stifle his more generous instincts." Surely if Dupleix erected this city (as undoubtedly was the case) as much for the impression that it would create in the native mind as for gratification of his personal vanity, Clive would have been wrong if he had not razed it. If it was French policy to build such a city, it was undoubtedly English policy to pull it down, and generosity has no place in the question. It is absurd to treat Dupleix Futtehabad as though it were a bridge of Jena or a column of Rossbach.