Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were corrected when the change was obvious.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
The index was not systematically checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Sidenotes in this eBook contain the text of running headers in the original book. They have been placed between paragraphs that were near those headers. Like the original headers, the sidenotes are not necessarily at the beginnings of the topics to which they refer.
Page [193]: “lost so many men as the 2nd” was misprinted with a gap where the word “as” should have been; corrected here.
Page [252]: “to two of three” was printed that way.
Page [295]: Transcriber added a missing closing quotation mark after “if we fancied it.” The correct position may be later in the paragraph.
Tables on pages [333], [340] and [341]: Asterisks in these tables are not references to footnotes; their purpose is explained on page [333]: “The star * affixed to a battalion’s station means that it had just returned from Sir John Moore’s Corunna Campaign.”
Page [339]: “only two (2/5th 2/34th, 2/38th)” was printed that way, with “two” and no comma after the first number.
[Footnote 344], originally on page [338]: “97th, 90th, 101st, 102nd” probably includes a misprint, as “90th” is out of sequence and already was mentioned in [Footnote 341].