Note 6 — THE ESSENTIALS OF GOOD SKIRMISHING.

The characteristic difference between British and foreign ideas of good light infantry is quietly portrayed at a stroke by Napier, when, in answer to St. Cyr’s remark, that “the Migueletes are the best light troops in the world,” he observes, “If, instead of fifteen thousand Migueletes, the four thousand men composing Wellington’s light division had been on the heights of Cardadeu, General St. Cyr’s sixty rounds of ammunition would scarcely have carried him to Barcelona,”—Peninsular War, vol. ii. page 104.