[14] “Memoirs of a Sevastopol Man” (N. S. Maloshevitch, 1904), chaps. ix., x.
[15] In this fight our weapons had a range of 300 to 450 yards, as compared with the enemy’s (Minié) rifle, which had a range of 1,200 yards. Our Rifle battalions, of which we had one per army corps, were alone armed with rifles.
[16] [? Tchernaya.—Ed.]
[17] Only fourteen men were left of the company in whose advanced trench the standard was. The officer commanding the battalion, the company commander, and company subaltern, were all killed.
[18] [An affair of outposts on the Afghan frontier, which caused a considerable stir at the time.—Ed.]
[19] [In the eighteenth century, 1,500,000; in the nineteenth century, 1,700,000.—Ed.]
[20] [This is apparently extracted from General Kuropatkin’s report of 1900.—Ed.]
[21] The frontiers with Norway and Sweden were settled by the Treaty of Friederichsham in 1809, and the St. Petersburg Convention of 1826.
[22] [Written before the partition.—Ed.]
[23] In Trans-Caucasia the frontier along the Rivers Araks and Astara was fixed by the Treaty of Turkmanchai in 1828, and in Trans-Caspia along the Artek and the Kopet Dagh ridge by the Agreement at Teheran in 1881.