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NOTES

_Drake's Drum_.--A State drum, painted with the arms of Sir Francis
Drake, is preserved among other relics at Buckland Abbey, the seat of
the Drake family in Devon.

_The fighting Temeraire_.--The last two stanzas have been
misunderstood. It seems, therefore, necessary to state that they are
intended to refer to Turner's picture in the National Gallery of "The
Fighting _Temeraire_ tugged to her Last Berth."

_San Stefano_.--Sir Peter Parker was the son of Admiral Christopher
Parker, grandson of Admiral Sir Peter Parker (the life-long friend and
chief mourner of Nelson), and great-grandson of Admiral Sir William
Parker. On his mother's side he was grandson of Admiral Byron, and
first cousin of Lord Byron, the poet. He was killed in action near
Baltimore in 1814, and buried in St. Margaret's, Westminster, where may
be seen the monument erected to his memory by the officers of the
_Menelaus_.

_The Quarter-Gunner's Yarn_.--This ballad is founded on fragmentary
lines communicated to the author by Admiral Sir Windham Hornby, K.C.B.,
who served under Sir Thomas Hardy in 1827. For an account of Cheeks
the Marine see Marryat's _Peter Simple_.

_Vae Victis_.--See _Livy_, xxx., 43; _Diodorus Siculus_, xix., 106.

_Seringapatam_.--In 1780, while attempting to relieve Arcot, a British
force of three thousand men was cut to pieces by Hyder Ali. Baird,
then a young captain in the 73rd, was left for dead on the field. He
was afterwards, with forty-nine other officers, kept in prison at
Seringapatam, and treated with Oriental barbarity and treachery by
Hyder Ali and his son Tippoo Sahib, Sultans of Mysore. Twenty-three of
the prisoners died by poison, torture, and fever; the rest were
surrendered in 1784. In 1799, at the Siege of Seringapatam,
Major-General Baird commanded the first European brigade, and
volunteered to lead the storming column. {232} Tippoo Sahib, with
eight thousand of his men, fell in the assault, but the victor spared
the lives of his sons, and forbade a general sack of the city.

_Clifton Chapel_.--Thirty-five Old Cliftonian officers served in the
campaign of 1897 on the Indian Frontier, of whom twenty-two were
mentioned in despatches, and six recommended for the Distinguished
Service Order. Of the three hundred Cliftonians who served in the war
in South Africa, thirty were killed in action and fourteen died of
wounds or fever.

"Clifton, remember these thy sons who fell
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