1. For Austro-British relations, the two most tumultuous periods (aside from the Seven Years War) were in 1725–8 after the Austro-Spanish treaty of 1725, and the Fürstenbund of 1785 when several German princes combined to prevent Austria from trading territories with the Bavarian Elector. See, T.C.W. Blanning, ‘“That Horrid Electorate” or “Ma Patrie Germanique”? George III, Hanover, and the Fürstenbund of 1785’, The Historical Journal, 20(2) (1977), pp. 311–44
2. For a better understanding of these relationships and alliances, see: Jeremy Black, The Continental Commitment: Britain, Hanover, and Interventionism: 1714–1793 (London: Routledge, 2005)
3. Jeremy Black, A System of Ambition? British Foreign Policy 1660–1793 (London: Sutton, 2000)
4. David French, The British Way of Warfare 1688–2000 (London: Routledge, 1990).
5. General Cavalie Mercer, Journal of the Waterloo Campaign (London: Greenhill Books, 1985), p. 231.