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408 APPENDIX. 3000 British troops. ' Our army was lax in its discipline, entirely ' without system, and very weak in numbers. Each colonel of a ' regiment managed it accorduig to his own notions, or neglected ' it altogether. There was no uniformity of drill or movement. ' Professional pride was rare, professional skill still more so.' He who thus Tote — Sir Henry Bunbury (Great War, p. vii) — was perhaps better qualified to give a decisive opinion on this subject than any other man then living. Note 5. — I do not forget the period from Wagram 1809 to 1812, but consider it would be a mistake to suppose that, because left without an ally, England did not at that time weigh on the mind of the Continent. Note 6. — From February 1793 to the close of the Ul-fated Walcheren Expedition in the autumn of 1809. In saying ' nearly ' seventeen years,' I must be understood to regard the brief Peace of Amiens as a truce. It lasted about a year. Note 7. — Because the terms obtained from Menou were the same as those contained in the Convention of El Arish which Kleber had signed before the English invasion of Egy|)t. Both the agreements provided for the return of the French army to France. Note 8. — It secured for Junot's defeated army a safe return to France. Note 9. — Amongst the 'preparatives,' I, of course, include measures for acquiring essential information. To omit that part of the preparations is to go to war blindfold. Note 10. — 'My father had asked Lord Chatham to what cir- cumstance he ascribed his successes in the Seven Years' War, to which the other very modestly replied — " To my obtaining " accurate information respecting the places which I intended to " att;u!:." I mentioned this to Mr Pitt, who said, " " iatcver " may have been the case in my father's time, I found it very "difficult to acquire such information."' — Lord Mahon's re- miniscence; Stanhope's 'Life of Pitt,' vol. iv. p. 84. Note 11. — Wilberforce, in his ' Memoirs,' says he always used to find his friend, the great Minister, with that map sprend out before him. Note 12. — Nelson's exploit at Copenhagen in 1801 took place after Pitt's retirement from office, but the expedition which thua