[73] Carteret to Wade, July 31/Aug. 11, Aug. 14/25, 17/28.
[74] Wade to Carteret, Aug. 26/Sept. 6.
[75] Ibid., Aug. 19/30, Aug. 25/Sept. 5, Sept. 16/27,
Sept. 22/Oct. 3, Oct. 1/12, 10/21
[76] Ligonier to Carteret, July 31/Aug. 11, 1744.
[77] Ligonier to Harrington, Jan. 29/Feb. 9, Feb. 6/17, 1745.
[78] Gazette, Feb. 23/March 6, March 1/12, 1745.
[79] Cumberland to Harrington, April 1/12, 12/23.
[80] The ground immediately before Fontenoy presents for fully eight hundred yards a gentle and unbroken slope. An officer, who went over the ground with me, assured me that St. Privat itself does not offer a more perfect natural glacis for modern rifle-fire.
[81] Every one knows the legend of “Messieurs les Gardes Françaises, tirez les premiers.” “Non, messieurs, nous ne tirons jamais les premiers.” But every English account agrees that the French fired first, long before the question had been raised, and I take the authority of Ligonier (who drew up the official account) as final. He says distinctly, “We received their fire.”
[82] Campagnes des Pays Bas.