[24] There were 1,731 shot and shell fired from the heavy guns. Of these, 88 were fired from the Inflexible's 80-ton guns. The average number of rounds for the heavy guns of the fleet was a little over 20 for each gun.
At the bombardment of Algiers one ship, H.M.S. Queen Charlotte, alone fired 4,462 round shot.
[25] The writer is indebted for much of the following information to the able report of Captain N. L. Walford, R.A.
[26] Report of Lieutenant-Commander Goodrich, U.S.N.
[27] In August, 1882, these two guns were removed to Ramleh for the purpose of firing on the enemy's lines.
[28] The dead were taken along the Boulevard de Rosette to the native hospital, where the bodies were at once interred.
[29] On the 13th the troops removed to Esbet Horshid, 5,000 metres south of Millaha junction on the Cairo railway, so as not to be exposed to the fire of the ships. On the 14th they moved to Kingi Osman and Kafr Dowar, where they entrenched themselves.
[30] Afterwards Sir Edward Zohrab Pasha K.C.M G.
[31] At the time when the town was a mass of smouldering ruins, and such shops as existed had been looted, a youthful midshipman of the fleet, ashore, on being asked what he thought of Alexandria, replied, "Oh, the place is well enough; the only thing is, jam is so dear."
[32] The commander of the German gunboat Habicht, who landed on the 14th, found a dozen bodies of Europeans lying in the streets which he had to pass through on his way to the German Hospital.