Note 189 — Chapter I

Many narratives speak of General Mackinnon as being killed by the first explosion, and others (including Wellington’s dispatch) call the second explosion that of an expense magazine fired by accident. Barrié’s report, however, settles the fact that it was a regular mine: and for Mackinnon’s death after the storming of the cuts I follow the narrative by an eye-witness appended at the end of the general’s diary.