1 Polybius.
2 One of the latter was exhumed some years since on the field of Hastings.
3 History of the Conquest of Granada.
4 Atlas des Batailles, Kausler.
5 The rates of pay, per day, at this time were:—
| Knight | 2s. |
| Esqr. and Captain | 1s. |
| Mounted Archer | 6d. |
| Foot Archer | 3d. |
| Gunner | 12d. 3d. |
| Welsh Foot | 2d. |
6 Mr. Hereford B. George gives 1200 to 1600 men-at-arms and 3000 archers.
7 The Battles of English History, by Hereford B. George, p. 62.
8 The site of the first battlefield of St. Albans is situated south-east of the town, on its present immediate outskirt at “Keyfield.” It evidently was fought across the London Road, one force (the Yorkists) trying to debouch the other (the Lancastrians), to prevent its advance. The ground was undoubtedly grass land leading down to a small brook, and sparsely crossed by fences, which were probably plainer then than now. A row of poor cottages called “Key Terrace,” marks probably the centre of the fight.
That of the second battle is north of the town, on land that is still open heath more or less. It is slightly undulating clay land, dotted with thin scrub and bramble, and probably was always so, fences being even now rare. There was no well-defined “position” in either case, a common fault on such soils, and here again, a force advancing from the north drove in a force occupying the town, and based on London, and which met its antagonist for battle on the northern road.
9 The weight of the man and his armour, trappings, etc., in 1560 amounted to twenty-five stones.
10 The Parliamentary Generals of the Great Civil War. Major N. L. Walford.
11 Walford, p. 128.
12 Judge O’Connor Morris.
13 Spriggs.
14 Foot received 1s.; horse 2s. 6d. per day.
15 Macaulay.
16 Military Papers. State Paper Office.
17 Lovat’s Life.
18 In 1703, apparently, there were in England about sixteen troops of cavalry, with seven regiments of infantry, in all about seven thousand men; and in Scotland, about ten troops of cavalry, and six regiments of infantry, or about four thousand men.
19 Affairs of Europe from the Peace of Utrecht to 1723. Earl Russell.
20 Battles of English History. Hereford B. George.
21 Farquhar.
22 Encyc. Brit.
23 Fonblanque.
24 The total available fighting strength of the clans was reputed to be about 40,000.
25 Not the present 48th, which was the 49th. The above mentioned disappeared in 1748.
26 Carlyle.
27 Gleig.
28 Schomberg’s Naval Chronicles.
29 Scots Magazine.
30 Stocqueler.
31 Stocqueler.
32 Stocqueler.
33 The late Sir G. Pomeroy Colley.
34 Childe Harold.
35 Napier.
36 Sir E. Hamley.
37 Robinson.
38 Napier.
39 Wellington Despatches.
40 Napier.
41 At Inkerman, later, Captain Stanley roused the courage of his men by calling out, “Die hard! Remember Albuhera.”
42 Southey.
43 Napier.
45 Life of Lord Lynedoch by Captain A. Delavoye.
46 Chesney.
47 Hereford B. George.
48 The British Army, Sir S. D. Scott.
49 The South African wars will be dealt with separately.
50 Sir E. B. Hamley.
51 Hereford B. George.
52 Von Moltke.
53 Hamley.
54 Hamley.
55 Decisive Battles of India, p. 279. Malleson.
56 Decisive Battles in India, p. 311. Malleson.
57 Macfarlane.
58 Another tradition has it that the custom arose after the battle of Culloden.
59 General W. F. P. Napier.
60 Sir H. Smith’s despatch.
61 Annual Register.
62 Calcutta Review.
63 Malleson.
64 Sir C. Napier.
65 British Battles by Land and Sea. Grant.
66 Relief of Chitral. Younghusband.
67 Macmillan’s Magazine.
68 Correspondent, Daily Telegraph.
69 The Ashantee War, by the Daily News Special Correspondent.
70 From Korti to Khartum, by Sir Charles W. Wilson.
71 From Korti to Khartum.
72 An amusing card was anonymously printed after this deprivation, a copy of which appears in the Regimental Chronicle. It runs as follows:—
“In memory of Left-Arm Chevrons, 43rd Light Infantry, last surviving offspring of the late General S. PRIT DE CORPS, of the Light Division, cut off by the hand of envy at Thayetmyo, July 1881.
“Also of BADGES, Relict of the above, destroyed by the Great Flood at Poona, October 1886.
“Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark.”
73 1868. N.B.—Where the old title is retained it is not added to the new title.
74 Altered to “Royal Scots Greys” in 1877.
75 Granted in 1876.
76 Altered to “Scots Guards” in 1877.
77 Granted in 1875.
78 Granted in 1877.
79 “Stirlingshire” granted in 1862.
80 Granted in 1876.
81 Second battalion authorised, and in course of formation (1897).
82 Granted in 1873.
83 Granted in 1872.
84 Granted in 1876.
85 Granted in 1874.
86 Nicknames and Traditions of the British Army.
87 British Army. Laurence Archer.
88 Nicknames and Traditions of the British Army.
89 The Regiment.
90 Army List.
91 The Regiment.
92 Nicknames and Traditions, etc.
93 The Regiment.
94 The Regiment.
95 Nicknames and Traditions of the Army.