Note 555 — SECTION VIII: CHAPTER II
Reading edition
A good account of the difficulties of transport in Moore’s army will be found in Quartermaster Surtees’s Twenty-five Years in the Rifle Brigade. Placed in charge of the baggage and beasts of the 2/95th, he found it absolutely impossible to keep the native drivers from absconding, even when they had to sacrifice their beasts to do so (pages 81-82).