Note 190 — Chapter I

Several narrators accuse them of shirking, but Geo. Napier writes (Life, p. 215), ‘Neither Elder nor his excellent regiment were likely to neglect any duty, and I am sure the blame rested elsewhere, for George Elder was always ready for any service.’ Compare George Simmons’s autobiography—possibly he put things out by ordering the Portuguese company to carry the ladders, which he clearly was not authorized to do. [A British Rifleman, p. 221.]