[73] British soldiers are also fond of performing on the mouth organ.
[75] A study of the diagram on p. [128] will explain the meaning of "communication trench" and "traverse." Lieutenant Leach's company was holding a trench such as that marked A on the diagram.
[77] In olden days Norse warriors, or berserks, worked themselves up before a battle into a fierce madness, known as the "berserk rage."
[78] Quoted from Mr. Will Irwin's account of the battle in the Daily Mail.
[79] In Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar, Act iii., Scene 2, Mark Antony, in the course of his speech over the dead body of Cæsar, says, "That day he overcame the Nervii." They were a tribe of Belgic Gauls holding territory from the Sambre to the North Sea. Cæsar overcame them B.C. 57.
[80] Fought during the Crimean War on November 5, 1854.
[81] Fought 1½ miles south of Stirling on June 24, 1314. The bore-stone in which it is said Bruce's banner was fixed still exists on Brock's Brae.
[82] Mes-seen´, between four and five miles south of Ypres.