[21] St. Simon gives a curious account of Lewis’s difficulty in arriving at the truth, owing to the general unwillingness to tell him bad news. [22] It is stated in _Records and Badges of the Army_ that Lillingston’s was formed in 1702. But Narcissus Luttrell, Millar, and the Military Entry Books all give the date as 25th March (New Year’s Day) 1705. [23] Quincy’s account of this portion of the campaign is, so far as concerns Marlborough, full of falsehoods. [24] Four British regiments were of this detachment. Two battalions of the 1st Royals, the 3rd Buffs, and the 10th Foot. [25] Narcissus Luttrell. [26] It is worth noting that this was the first campaign in which Marlborough and the British took the post of honour at the extreme right of the Allied order of battle. [27] His camp thus lay across the whole of Wellington’s position at Waterloo, from east to west and considerably beyond it to westward, but fronted in the reverse direction. [28] ORDER OF BATTLE. CAMPAIGN OF 1705. Right. RIGHT WING ONLY. 1st Line. Scots Greys, 3 squadrons. 5th Dragoons, 3 squadrons. 1st Dragoon Guards, 3 squadrons. 5th Dragoon Guards, 2 squadrons. 7th Dragoon Guards, 2 squadrons. 6th Dragoon Guards, 2 squadrons. 3rd Dragoon Guards, 2 squadrons. 1 Batt. 1st Guards. 1 Batt. Royal Scots. 18th Royal Irish. 23rd Royal Welsh. 28th Foot. Stringer’s Foot. 26th Cameronians. 16th Foot. 3rd Buffs. 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers. 37th Foot. Macartney’s Foot. Evans’s Foot. 24th Foot. 15th Foot. Foreign Troops. 2nd Line. Foreign Troops. Extreme Right of Centre. 2nd Batt. Royal Scots. 10th Foot. Temple’s Foot. 29th Foot. 8th Foot Left. _Newspaper._ [29] Peterborough’s Dragoons; Mark Kerr’s, Stanwix’s, Lovelace’s, Townsend’s, Tunbridge’s, Bradshaw’s, Sybourg’s, Price’s Foot. Sybourg’s was made up of Huguenots. [30] Marlborough’s _Despatches_, vol. ii. p. 262. [31] This is the story told in Lamberti. [32] The ground, though now drained, is still very wet. [33] I have described the field at some length, since the map given by Coxe is most misleading. [34] Coxe, by a singular error, makes the left consist exclusively of infantry, in face of Quincy, Feuquières, the _London Gazette_ and other authorities, thereby missing almost unaccountably an important feature in the action. [35] Apparently the whole of Meredith’s brigade, viz.: 1st, 18th, 29th, 37th, 24th, and 10th regiments. The place is still easily identifiable. [36] Molesworth escaped and was rewarded four years later, at the age of twenty-two, with a regiment of foot. [37] ORDER OF BATTLE. RAMILLIES, 12TH–23RD MAY 1706.