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273 ‘all soldiers ran away sometimes’: Wellington’s remark was quoted by Croker in recounting dinner on 27 April 1828. ‘[Wellington was] very frank and amusing. He said all troops ran away – that he never minded; all he cared about was whether they would come back again, and he added that he always had a succession of lines for the purpose of rallying fugitives.’ It is contained in his two-volume set of reminiscences of the Duke.
275 ‘George Baller was another veteran of O’Hare’s company’: details from Rifle Brigade Chronicle, 1930.
TWENTY-SEVEN The Legend is Born
279 ‘The bayonet may, in truth, be termed the grand mystifier of modern tactics’: this phrase was used by Mitchell in the United Services Journal and his book Thoughts on Tactics and Military Organisation, London, 1838. The quotations here come from the book.
280 ‘It is discipline, which is nothing but each man, shoulder-to-shoulder’: this letter by W.D.B. is in the United Service Journal, 1838, Part 3.
– ‘Our corps gained the reputation … not by aping the drill of grenadiers’: Leach, Rough Sketches.
281 ‘Kincaid for example arguing that skirmishing soldiers needed to be kept moving’: he did this in Random Shots, not the United Services Journal. The book was published in 1835 and the USJ bayonet debate took place in 1838–40.
284 ‘there, perhaps, never was, nor ever again will be, such a war brigade’: Kincaid, Adventures.
286 ‘the most celebrated old fighting corps in the Army or perhaps the world’: Major General G. Bell, Rough Notes by an Old Soldier, London, 1867.
– ‘A remarkable revival of curiosity in the events of the time of Napoleon has lately arisen’: Du Cane in his article on Molloy.
288 ‘new fangled school mastering’: Wellington made this remark in a letter to his friend Rev. Gleig.
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In several cases the dates given are those of the edition used in the compilation of this book rather than of the first edition.
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