^{page 4 note 1} The correct spelling is Vimeiro.

^{page 4 note 2} Also spelt Laborde and Delaborde.

^{page 6 note 1} Castlereagh's half-brother.

^{page 6 note 2} Wellington's aide de camp, later Major-General Sir Colin Campbell.

^{page 6 note 3} See Gurwood, iv. 81–103.

^{page 6 note 4} Dated 23 August, 1808 (W.S.D., vi. 122).

^{page 7 note 1} Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, Bart.

^{page 8 note 1} William, eldest son of Wellesley Pole. As a result of this letter he was transferred to the care of the Marquess Wellesley who wrote : ‘ William Pole is very diligent, and is going on very well.’ (Capt.Bagot, Joceline, George Canning and his Friends, i. 338Google Scholar.)

^{page 11 note 1} True about Soult but not about Victor, See Oman, History of the Peninsular War, ii. 289.

^{page 12 note 1} Milgapey seems to have been the village at the bridge over the Misarella, the Saltador.

^{page 15 note 1} Generally called Arzobispo.

^{page 15 note 2} Also spelt Venegas.

^{page 16 note 1} A nickname of George III, derived from a contemporary popular song.

^{page 18 note 1} Gurwood, iv. 504, 509.Google Scholar

^{page 18 note 2} Ibid., v. 4.

^{page 18 note 3} Ibid., v.

^{page 18 note 4} Above, no. 12.

^{page 20 note 1} This is what the word looks like. Junta may be meant.

^{page 22 note 1} Francisco Eguia succeeded Cuesta in command.

^{page 22 note 2} Gurwood, v. 76.

^{page 22 note 3} W.S.D., vi. 333.

^{page 23 note 1} Gurwood, v. 115, 117, 118.

^{page 23 note 2} Dated 10 September. W.S.D., vi. 360.

^{page 24 note 1} Brigadier General Commanding Artillery.

^{page 25 note 1} Castlereagh had already insisted that the King's pleasure should be taken concerning a pecuniary grant to Wellington. See W.S.D., vi. 359.

^{page 26 note 1} Lord Sidmouth.

^{page 27 note 1} The Right Hon. J. C. Villiers who was being replaced by Charles Stuart as British representative at Lisbon.

^{page 28 note 1} Daughter of the first Earl Cadogan whom he married in 1803. She was divorced by Act of Parliament in 1810 under unusual circumstances. Cf, Countess Granville, Correspondence of Lord Granville Leveson Gower, ii. 366.

^{page 29 note 1} On 19 November.

^{page 29 note 2} Dated 30 November : Gurwood, v. 312.

^{page 30 note 1} Vice-Admiral the Hon. G. Berkeley.

^{page 31 note 1} B. Sydenham, a member of the Admiralty Board ; I am not sure who is the Shaw referred to.

^{page 32 note 1} These were later collected together and arranged chronologically in a publication edited by Montgomery Martin, The Despatches and Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley, K.G. …in 1809 (1838).

^{page 32 note 2} The despatch of 24 August 1809 seems to be meant (Gurwood, v. 76). Oman (History of the Peninsular War, ii. 620) gives a very different account of this affair, but he was ignorant of this evidence and is always partial to Sir Robert Wilson.

^{page 34 note 1} The situation is conveniently summed up in Fortescue, , History of the British Army, vii. 442–445Google Scholar.

^{page 34 note 2} Dated 13 March (W.S.D., vi. 493).

^{page 35 note 1} Wyatt was employed by Wellesley-Pole to make plans for a house for Wellington.

^{page 36 note 1} See Castlereagh Correspondence, x. 454 and my Foreign Policy of Castlereagh, 1812–1815, p. 468.

^{page 37 note 1} I think that this must be a reference to Whitbread, who committed suicide in 1815, though he was never leader.

^{page 37 note 2} W.S.D., xi. 301.

^{page 38 note 1} His younger brother, who was in orders.

^{page 38 note 2} For Wellington's bad opinion of Sir Brent Spencer see Fortescue, History of the British Army, vii. 499, where a passage from one of Wellington's letters omitted in W.S.D., vi. 587, is quoted from a copy in the Wellington Archives. In Lord Raglan's original there is in addition this phrase: ‘ The Royal Family at their dinners or their Card parties would make him say what they please, or he would swear to it afterwards.’

^{page 38 note 3} The publication ‘ The Shield of Wellington. Presented to Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington by the merchants and bankers of London’ [1814 ?] is no longer available in the British Museum Library, having been destroyed by enemy action.