Note 54 — Chapter XXI
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“From Major-General Ross to Earl Bathurst.
“Tonnant in the Patuxent, Aug. 30, 1814.
“Captain Smith, assistant adjutant-general to the troops, who will have the honor to deliver this dispatch, I beg leave to recommend to your lordship’s protection, as an officer of much merit and great promise, and capable of affording any further information that may be requisite” (Given in W. James’s Military Occurrences of the Late War (1818), ii. p. 498).