Note 450 — SECTION XXVI: CHAPTER IV

For statements showing that every one believed Erskine to be the responsible person see Stepney, p. 105: ‘instead of promulgating the orders the general, it is said, put them in his pocket and forgot them.’ George Simmons (p. 174): ‘Bevan was too late owing to Sir W. Erskine, by accident, not sending him an order in time.’ Charles Napier (Diary, p. 173), ‘It is said that Sir Wm. Erskine is to blame, and next to him General Campbell.’