[133] Witzleben, ii. 194.
[134] That is to say, guns not allotted to the infantry as battalion-guns.
[135] The brigade was reckoned at four battalions, the flank companies being massed into a fourth battalion.
[136] The Fourteenth and Fifty-third, with the flank companies of these two regiments and of the Thirty-seventh, massed into a third battalion. Witzleben (ii. 199) gives a larger number of British troops, calling all squadrons and battalions in British pay by the name English.
[137] Murray to Dundas, 24th May 1793.
[138] Witzleben, ii. 210–211. This author states that the Duke of York asked for the command of the siege, which I believe to be absolutely incorrect, and indeed incredible. See Murray to Dundas, 26th and 29th May; Dundas to Murray, 30th and 31st May 1793.
[139] Blues, Royals, Greys, Inniskillings.
[140] Vie de Carnot, i. 321, sq.
[141] Dundas to Murray, 29th May, 14th June, 12th July; Murray to Dundas, 18th June and 16th July 1793.
[142] Murray to Dundas, 25th July.