Some day, when I can find time, I will read the whole report myself.
"It will be well to have a dozen copies made of the first five or six pages, and the maps, for the perusal of any officer sent out with a detachment on scouting duty, as a model of the sort of report that an officer should send in of his work, when on such duty." The party at dinner was a small one, consisting only of some five or six officers of the headquarter staff, and two generals of divisions.

After dinner, Lord Wellington asked Terence how he escaped from Salamanca, and the latter briefly related the particulars of his evasion.
"This is the second time you have escaped from a French prison," Lord Wellington said, when he had finished.

"The last time, if I remember rightly, you escaped from Bayonne in a boat." "But you did not get to England in that boat, surely, Colonel O'Connor ?" one of the generals laughed.
"No, sir; we were driven off shore by a gale, and picked up by a French privateer.

We escaped from her as she was lying in port at Brest, made our way to the mouth of the river Sienne, about nine miles north of Granville; and then, stealing another boat, started for Jersey.

We were chased by a French privateer but, before she came up to us, a Jersey privateer arrived and engaged her.