FOOTNOTES:
[1] Table in Humber’s Water Supply of Cities and Towns (London, 1876), p. 86.—Quoted by Hodgkin in “Italy and her Invaders,” Vol. 4, p. 172.
[2] Numbers in History, by Dr. Hans Delbrück, London University Press, 1914.
[3] The exact figures are:—
| Killed | Wounded | Missing | ||||
| Officers. | Other ranks. | Officers. | Other ranks. | Officers. | Other ranks. | |
| Busaco | 1 | 30 | 8 | 94 | — | — |
| Ciudad Rodrigo | — | 7 | 4 | 23 | — | — |
| Badajoz | 3 | 28 | 7 | 106 | — | — |
| Salamanca | 2 | 11 | 4 | 110 | — | 8 |
| Kaba Kuyu | 3 | 43 | 9 | 159 | — | 47 |
| Nearly all killed. | ||||||
The Peninsular figures are taken from Oman’s Peninsular War, Volumes III and V.
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Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg xx]: ‘thoughts of these’ replaced by ‘thoughts of those’.
[Pg 31]: ‘were competely’ replaced by ‘were completely’.
[Pg 60]: ‘name of Barrossa’ replaced by ‘name of Barrosa’.
[Pg 60]: ‘and Badajos’ replaced by ‘and Badajoz’.
[Pg 93]: ‘between the Asmah’ replaced by ‘between the Asmak’.
[Pg 95]: ‘The Anzac Sap’ replaced by ‘The Anzac Sap’.
[Pg 97]: ‘the Gurkhas and’ replaced by ‘the Ghurkas and’.
[Pg 122]: ‘of Anafarta Sagir’ replaced by ‘of Anafarta Saghir’.
[Pg 130]: ‘the Azmak Dere’ replaced by ‘the Asmak Dere’.
[Pg 141]: ‘Sveral men were’ replaced by ‘Several men were’.
[Pg 161]: ‘able to adminster’ replaced by ‘able to administer’.
[Pg 195]: ‘had been adandoned’ replaced by ‘had been abandoned’.
[Pg 209]: ‘with thier units’ replaced by ‘with their units’.
[Pg 272]: ‘Pike, Lt.-Col., 37, 281’ replaced by ‘Pike, Lt.-Col., 37, 241’.
[Pg 272]: ‘Royston-Pigott’ replaced by ‘Royston-Piggott’.