Note 539 — Chapter I
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See Burgoyne’s Diary, i. p. 135: ‘There is an account current that his Lordship says if he undertakes another siege he will be his own engineer. Whatever faults were committed at Badajoz I suspect he was not aware of them, and I think it very doubtful whether he even knows them now. It appears to me probable that he did say so, by the mystery affected about our [the engineer] head quarters respecting the siege.’ Burgoyne, an engineer with his feelings hurt, under-values Wellington’s intelligence.