Note 229 — Chapter XII · INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OF THE REGIMENT: THE RANK AND FILE
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One of the Duke’s acrid generalizations on this point was “the non-commissioned officers of the Guards regularly got drunk once a day, by eight in the evening, and got to bed soon after—but they always took care to do first what they were bid.”—Stanhope’s Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, p. 18.