Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Ditto marks in the Table of Contents and List of Illustrations have been replaced by the words above them. Ditto marks in Appendices II and III have been retained.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been renumbered and moved to the end of the main text, just before the Index.
Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Page [45]: “follow-effect” was printed that way.
Page [63]: The closing right parenthesis in ‘“Men of Harlech”);’ was added by the Transcriber.
Page [115]: “Benedek Arnold” was printed that way.
Page [161]: “Egmont-op-Zee on the 2nd October 1799” was misprinted as 1779; corrected here.