1 The future Duke of Wellington. I will refer to him as Wellington for the rest of the article.
2 Wellington’s Despatches (WD), Wellington to Castlereagh, 28 August 1809.
3 Shore, HV, An Engineer Officer under Wellington. The Diary and Correspondence of Lieutenant Rice Jones RE, During 1809-12, Trotman Reprint, 1986, pp. 45-6
4 Original REM 5501-91-1, Also Wellington’s Despatches, Wellington to Fletcher, 20 October 1809.
5 Jones, Journal of the Sieges Carried out by the Army Under the Duke of Wellington in Spain During the Years 1811 to 1814, 3rd Edition, London, 1846, Vol.3, pp.125-6. Letter from Wellington to the Commissary-General dated 18 February 1810.
6 BL ADD MS63106, ff.3-4.
7 Wellington’s Supplementary Despatches (WSD) Vol 6 p538-546
8 Jones, Vol.3, pp.226-7.
9 Jones, Vol.3, pp.230-1
10 Jones, Vol.3, p.92.
11 BL ADD MS63106, Letters from Squire to Bunbury, ff.11-12.
12 Jones, Vol.3, p.37
13 Jones, Vol.3, p.101
14 Jones, Vol.3, p.28-9
15 WD, 2nd ed, Vol.4, p.317
16 Kincaid, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, p17.
17 REM 5501-79, Squire to Fletcher, Sobral Pequeno, 20 October 1810.
18 Jones, Vol.3, p.41. |