[76] Ligonier to Carteret, July 31/Aug. 11, 1744. [77] Ligonier to Harrington, Jan. 29/Feb. 9, Feb. 6/17, 1745. [78] _Gazette_, Feb. 23/March 6, March 1/12, 1745. [79] Cumberland to Harrington, April 1/12, 12/23. [80] The ground immediately before Fontenoy presents for fully eight hundred yards a gentle and unbroken slope. An officer, who went over the ground with me, assured me that St. Privat itself does not offer a more perfect natural glacis for modern rifle-fire. [81] Every one knows the legend of “Messieurs les Gardes Françaises, tirez les premiers.” “Non, messieurs, nous ne tirons jamais les premiers.” But every English account agrees that the French fired first, long before the question had been raised, and I take the authority of Ligonier (who drew up the official account) as final. He says distinctly, “We received their fire.” [82] _Campagnes des Pays Bas._ [83] Ligonier to Harrington, May 5/16. Cumberland to Harrington, May 11/22. [84] Fawkener to Harrington, July 19/30. [85] General Bligh to Cumberland, June 28/July 9. [86] Cumberland to Harrington, July 2/13. [87] Cumberland to Harrington, July 14/25. [88] Ligonier to Harrington, July 14/25. [89] Harrington to Cumberland, Sept. 4/15; Oct. 1/12, 19/30. [90] Dunmore to Harrington, Jan. 20/31, Jan. 27/Feb. 7, Feb. 12/23. [91] Ligonier to Harrington, July 1/12, 1746. [92] Ligonier to Harrington, July 9/20, 13/24, 16/27. [93] _Ibid._, July 23/Aug. 3, Aug. 2/13. [94] Ligonier to Harrington, Aug. 9/20, 19/30, Aug. 26/Sept. 6, Sept. 4/15. [95] Ligomer to Harrington, Sept. 24/Oct. 5, Sept. 28/Oct. 9. [96] Ligonier to Harrington, Sept. 28/Oct. 9, Oct. 20/31. [97] 1st, 15th, 28th, 30th, 39th, and 42nd Foot. [98] Cumberland to Harrington, Feb. 6/17, March 20/31, March 24/April 4. [99] Cumberland to Chesterfield, May 1/12, 9/20. [100] Cumberland blamed the Austrian General, Baroney, and his irregulars for supine negligence on the march. Cumberland to Chesterfield, July 6/17, 1747. [101] The regiments present at Lauffeld were the Greys, 4th Hussars, Inniskillings, 7th Hussars, and Cumberland’s dragoons, one battalion each of the 1st and 3rd Guards, 3rd, 4th, 13th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 25th, 32nd, 33rd, 36th, 37th, 48th Foot. The two last had no casualties. [102] Cumberland to Newcastle, March 18/29, March 22/April 2, March 26/April 6. [103] _Dropmore Papers_, Auckland to Grenville, 21st and 25th January; 14th and 15th February. _F.O. Holland_, 16th February 1793. And see _Auckland Correspondence_ and _Dropmore Papers_ generally, November 1792 to February 1793. [104] The head of the column was able to keep sober; the rear, under the endearments of the populace, subsided dead drunk on the road and was brought on in carts. _Narrative of an Officer of the Guards._ [105] Lake to Dundas, 2nd March 1793. Lake’s Instructions, 23rd February. Grenville to Auckland, 20th February 1793. _F.O. Holland_, Auckland to Grenville, 4th March 1793.