[17] Seven regiments of horse and dragoons, fourteen battalions of foot, fifty-six guns.
[18] Coxe, vol. i. p. 182.
[19] So Quincy. Coxe gives August 25–September 5 as the date, but the difference depends merely on the interpretation of the word investment.
[20] See the description in Kane.
[21] St. Simon gives a curious account of Lewis’s difficulty in arriving at the truth, owing to the general unwillingness to tell him bad news.
[22] It is stated in Records and Badges of the Army that Lillingston’s was formed in 1702. But Narcissus Luttrell, Millar, and the Military Entry Books all give the date as 25th March (New Year’s Day) 1705.
[23] Quincy’s account of this portion of the campaign is, so far as concerns Marlborough, full of falsehoods.
[24] Four British regiments were of this detachment. Two battalions of the 1st Royals, the 3rd Buffs, and the 10th Foot.
[25] Narcissus Luttrell.
[26] It is worth noting that this was the first campaign in which Marlborough and the British took the post of honour at the extreme right of the Allied order of battle.