[9] In a recent work upon the war in Algeria, written by General Yusuf, a French Zoave, evidently a man of great military talent, a march of sixty miles in twenty-six hours by a French detachment is recorded, and by an English writer has been compared with this of the light division. But the French soldier does not carry more than two-thirds of the weight an English soldier carries, and Yusuf does not say how many stragglers there were; moreover the light division had previously made a march of twenty miles with only a few hours to rest, or rather to wash and cook: their real march was therefore eighty-two miles.
[10] Now Sir Charles Rowan, Metropolitan Police.
[11] This altercation, though public and known to the whole division, has been ridiculously denied by the writer of Picton’s life.
[12] For this anecdote my authority was Colonel D’Esmenard, Ney’s first aide-de-camp, the officer employed. He said Massena was in bed, and spoke to him through the door.
[13] This forcible expression, now become common, is generally supposed to be an original saying of the late Lord Melbourne; but it is not so. It was first employed by the Spanish government in a manifesto, to characterise the battle of Baylen, and Lord Melbourne adopted it without acknowledging its source.
[14] Lord Lynedoch.
[15] Now Lieut.-Gen. Sir A. M‘Lean.
[16] General Sir A. Barnard.
[17] Lieut.-General Brotherton.
[18] Lord Londonderry.