[197]. Pasley’s ‘Operations of a Siege,’ ii., p. 246, note.
[198]. ‘Instructions for the Defence of Fortresses,’ translated by Major Reid, R.E., 1823, p. 20.
[199]. From his perfect knowledge of the duties of field engineering, he was known among his comrades by the title of “Sap Major.”
[200]. Corporal Charles Ford was one of the prisoners. He was of a respectable family, and had a brother a clergyman in the Church of England, presiding over the cure of the parish of Kilbeaconty in Ireland. In an article in the ‘United Service Journal,’ headed, “Captivity in San Sebastian,” Captain Harry Jones, R.E., who also had been taken prisoner, alludes to this non-commissioned officer. “In the course of the day,” he says, “I was asked whether I would like to speak to a corporal of sappers, who had been made a prisoner during the sortie. I was delighted at the prospect of seeing one of my old friends, but was greatly astonished, in the afternoon, by seeing a fine tall young man, a stranger, walking into the ward, dressed in a red jacket. He was the first sapper I had seen in the new uniform, as blue was the colour worn when I was taken prisoner. Upon inquiring when he joined the army from England, he replied, 'Yesterday morning. I was put on duty in the trenches last night, and was shortly afterwards brought into the town by the enemy.'”—‘United Service Journal,’ 1, 1841, p. 198.
[201]. Napier’s ‘Peninsular War,’ vi., p. 502, edit. 1840.
[202]. Manuscript, Royal Engineer Establishment. The details of the construction of this bridge have been considered sufficiently interesting to be preserved in a model at the royal engineer establishment at Chatham.
[203]. Jones’s ‘Sieges’[‘Sieges’] ii., p. 107, 2nd edit.
[204]. Jones’s ‘Sieges,’ p. 109.
[205]. Jones’s ‘Sieges,’ ii., p. 118, 2nd edit. As a reward for their services, most of the men that belonged to the flotilla received a guinea and a pair of shoes.
[206]. Jones’s ‘Sieges,’ ii., p. 117, 2nd edit.