Note 36 — Chapter III

It was here, and at this period, that a gentleman in plain clothes called out to the dragoons, “Go along, my boys! now’s your time!” It was the late duke of Richmond, come out merely as an amateur, and to see how his ball-guests, and his sons, three of whom were on the field, were faring. He was not attached to the staff of this army: otherwise he would have been second in command, as, besides being colonel of the 35th, he was full general.