[287] "I could not prevent the men from being filled with rum by the inhabitants." Amherst to Pitt, 18th September 1758.
[288] Forbes to Bouquet, 27th June; Washington to Bouquet, 3rd July 1758. Bouquet Papers, Add. M.S. 21640, 21641.
[289] Board of General Officers, Letter Book, vol. ccclx. p. 24.
[290] Horatio Gates to Bouquet, 8th September 1759. "Lord Howe was mistaken in cropping the Germans. Some, nay, many of them, would sooner have parted with their scalps than with their plaited tails to be trimmed a la sauvage." Bouquet Papers.
[291] Abercromby to Pitt, 8th September 1758.
[292] Stewart's Highlanders, vol. i. p. 296.
[293] Turpin's Essai sur la guerre. Forbes to Pitt, 17th June, 27th October 1758.
[294] Add. MS., 21643. Receipt for the rifles, 6th May; Stanwix to Bouquet, 25th May 1758.
[295] Ibid., 21632. Bouquet to Forbes, 20th August 1758.
[296] The troops were, one battalion from each regiment of Guards, the 5th, 8th, 20th, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 30th, 33rd, 34th, and 36th Foot; the light troops of nine dragoon regiments, three companies of artillery and a large siege-train.