[29] The conception and execution of this movement has been repeatedly given to Picton. Erroneously so. My authority is the Duke of Wellington.
[30] Now Sir W. Reid, Governor of Malta.
[31] Now Major-General Sir Colin Campbell in the Crimea.
[32] For this fact Marshal Soult is my authority.
[33] In my original work, misled by false information, I said the soldiers of the 92nd were all Irish: but their Colonel, McDonald, afterwards gave me irrefragable proof, by a list of names, that they were Scotchmen.
[34] All these conjectures and proceedings are given on the Duke’s personal authority.
[35] For this fact I had the authority of a French colonel of artillery.
[36] The facts as here stated were supplied to me by the Duke of Wellington.
[37] Memoirs of Captain, now Lieut.-Colonel Cooke, Gentleman-at-Arms.
[38] Colonel Havelock, since killed in the Punjaub at the head of the 14th Dragoons.