Note 83 — SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLIC LIFE OF THE LATE LIEUT.-GENERAL Sir GEORGE PREVOST, Bart. &c. &c. (continued 2)
Reading edition
The following is the Reviewer's mode of stating this:—"Had the Commander-in-Chief suffered these works to be assaulted as was eagerly proposed to him on the same evening, there is no question but they must have fallen with scarcely an effort before a single brigade."—p. 445.