The 2nd Battalion itself left Toronto, where it had been quartered since August 1847, in two divisions on May 22 and 24, arriving at Kingston on the following days respectively. Thus the Battalion and its Reserve were amalgamated; and at Kingston reunited into one Battalion.
FOOTNOTES:
[193] i.e. A wooded ravine or valley.
[194] Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hardinge, retired.
[195] i.e. A ford.
[196] Colonel Charles Vernon Oxenden died April 26, 1868.
[197] Major-General Alexander Macdonell, C.B.
[198] ‘It was,’ says an historian of the war, ‘the useful green jackets, the untiring Rifle Brigade, who worried Sandilli out of his hiding-place among the mountains.’ (‘Five Years in Kaffirland,’ ii. 240, 2nd edition.)
[199] ‘Five Years in Kaffirland,’ by Mrs. Ward, ii. 329-30.
[200] Hoek, i.e. an inlet from a plain to high land, and from which there is no outlet.