Note 12 — Chapter VIII · UPROOTED.

Mr. Hutton, whose exceedingly interesting and brilliant Life of the Marquess of Wellesley (in the “Rulers of India” series) includes an account of the whole campaign, has been so kind as to endeavour to identify this Frenchman for me, and tells me that in a note to Wellington’s Despatches, Vol. II., p. 323, it is given as Dupont; Wellington speaking of him as commanding a “brigade of infantry.” My father certainly spoke of him or some other Frenchman as commanding Scindias’ artillery. Mr. Hutton has also been good enough to refer me to Grant Duff’s History of the Mahrattas, Vol. III., p. 240, with regard to the number of British troops engaged at Assaye. He (Mr. Grant Duff) says the handful of British troops did not exceed 4,500 as my father also estimated them.