LIEUT.-GENERAL THOMAS DYNELEY, C.B., R.A. 403 
whole of the action. You may suppose the confusion we were in from 
the intense heat of the sun and this fire. We then marched a few 
hundred yards further and took up the enemy’s ground where we 
rested about two hours and, after taking what little refreshment we had 
with us, returned to the beach about five miles distant from the field, 
where we remained that night. 
Our loss on that day was only one officer and fifty men killed, ten or 
twelve officers and two hundred and sixty men wounded; the loss on 
the French side is estimated at nearly three thousand. 
Our General had meanwhile received information that the enemy were 
collecting their force at Catauzaro, our troops therefore, excepting 
about five hundred men, marched the next morning to oppose them. 
We reached the town of Maida where we found a hundred wounded, 
whom we dressed and sent aboard a ship. 
That evening soon after our arrival, the General received fresh infor- 
mation to the effect that the said force had fled in all directions ; we then 
turned and marched directly across the country for Scylla where there 
was a castle held by 200 Frenchmen who refused to surrender. All our 
field-pieces were embarked at Montelerone, excepting two 6-pounders 
and one howitzer which were conducted to Scylla by Captain Pym! 
and myself, and terrible work we had ; however, we arrived there safe 
on the 13th. Batteries were soon made and we opened fire, which was 
constantly kept up until the 23rd, when we had also three 24-pounders 
in position. In my battery there were both a 12-pounder and a 
howitzer, the noise from which shook my head; for the whole day was 
employed in firmg as much as the guns would bear, etc., and we 
showed the scaling ladders within 100 yards of the place to let the 
enemy see what we meant to do ifthey did not surrender. A flag of 
truce was sent in that evening to ask their terms. They demanded 
to march out with the Honours of War and join their nearest post. 
We allowed them to march out with the Honours of War, but took 
their arms from them, and sent them in one of our transports to Toulon. 
I was very well when the flag of truce went in, but before it returned 
I was seized with a violent chill and a fever. I instantly went to bed, 
which consisted of church banners and a blanket. I remained in 
this condition with my clothes on (which by the by had not been off 
once during the whole trip), all that night and the next day, I then got 
a comfortable bed in the town ; however, I got worse, and the next day 
went over in a boat to Messina. That best of men, Mr. Burgmann,? 
came directly and wanted to have me in his house, which the surgeon 
at that time did not approve. He was always with me and everything 
for which the surgeons orI wished, I had at once in the most comfortable 
manner. I don’t know what I should have done had it not been for 
Mr. Burgmann and Captain Pym ; the latter never left my bedside day 
or night during the whole of my illness. The fever took a turn on the 
2nd, and I gained strength faster than I had lost it. I gotup on the 3rd 
and on the 4th went to Mr. Burgmann’s, where I have been most com- 
1 Captain B. Pym (Kane’s List, No. 802). 
* Grandfather of Colonel George Burgmann, late Commanding R.A. South Eastern District. 
