1Polybius.

2One of the latter was exhumed some years since on the field of Hastings.

3History of the Conquest of Granada.

4Atlas des Batailles, Kausler.

5The rates of pay, per day, at this time were:—

6Mr. Hereford B. George gives 1200 to 1600 men-at-arms and 3000 archers.

7The Battles of English History, by Hereford B. George, p. 62.

8The 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.

9The weight of the man and his armour, trappings, etc., in 1560 amounted to twenty-five stones.

10The Parliamentary Generals of the Great Civil War. Major N.L. Walford.

11Walford, p. 128.

12Judge O’Connor Morris.

13Spriggs.

14Foot received 1s.; horse 2s. 6d. per day.

15Macaulay.

16Military Papers. State Paper Office.

17Lovat’s Life.

18In 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.

19Affairs of Europe from the Peace of Utrecht to 1723. Earl Russell.

20Battles of English History. Hereford B. George.

21Farquhar.

22Encyc. Brit.

23Fonblanque.

24The total available fighting strength of the clans was reputed to be about 40,000.

25Not the present 48th, which was the 49th. The above mentioned disappeared in 1748.

26Carlyle.

27Gleig.

28Schomberg’s Naval Chronicles.

29Scots Magazine.

30Stocqueler.

31Stocqueler.

32Stocqueler.

33The late Sir G. Pomeroy Colley.

34Childe Harold.

35Napier.

36Sir E. Hamley.

37Robinson.

38Napier.

39Wellington Despatches.

40Napier.

41At Inkerman, later, Captain Stanley roused the courage of his men by calling out, “Die hard! Remember Albuhera.”

42Southey.

43Napier.

44See p. 204.

45Life of Lord Lynedoch by Captain A. Delavoye.

46Chesney.

47Hereford B. George.

48The British Army, Sir S.D. Scott.

49The South African wars will be dealt with separately.

50Sir E.B. Hamley.

51Hereford B. George.

52Von Moltke.

53Hamley.

54Hamley.

55Decisive Battles of India, p. 279. Malleson.

56Decisive Battles in India, p. 311. Malleson.

57Macfarlane.

58Another tradition has it that the custom arose after the battle of Culloden.

59General W.F.P. Napier.

60Sir H. Smith’s despatch.

61Annual Register.

62Calcutta Review.

63Malleson.

64Sir C. Napier.

65British Battles by Land and Sea. Grant.

66Relief of Chitral. Younghusband.

67Macmillan’s Magazine.

68Correspondent, Daily Telegraph.

69The Ashantee War, by the Daily News Special Correspondent.

70From Korti to Khartum, by Sir Charles W. Wilson.

71From Korti to Khartum.

72An 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.”

731868. N.B.—Where the old title is retained it is not added to the new title.

74Altered to “Royal Scots Greys” in 1877.

75Granted in 1876.

76Altered to “Scots Guards” in 1877.

77Granted in 1875.

78Granted in 1877.

79“Stirlingshire” granted in 1862.

80Granted in 1876.

81Second battalion authorised, and in course of formation (1897).

82Granted in 1873.

83Granted in 1872.

84Granted in 1876.

85Granted in 1874.

86Nicknames and Traditions of the British Army.

87British Army. Laurence Archer.

88Nicknames and Traditions of the British Army.

89The Regiment.

90Army List.

91The Regiment.

92Nicknames and Traditions, etc.

93The Regiment.

94The Regiment.

95Nicknames and Traditions of the Army.