| Regiment. | Officers killed. | Officers wounded. | Other ranks killed. | Other ranks wounded. | Total. | |
| Grenadiers (drawn from | } | 8 | 10 | 150 | { 150 } | 318 |
| thirteen regiments) | {about} | |||||
| 17th | 3 | 8 | 101 | 149 | 261 | |
| XVIIIth | 12 | 13 | 86 | 185 | 296 | |
| Mackay’s | 2 | 15 | 73 | 166 | 256 | |
| Buchan’s | 4 | 9 | 65 | 140 | 218 | |
| 29 | 55 | 475 | 790 | 1349 | ||
[24] See [Appendix 2 (A)].
[25] This was probably an Algerian pirate, one of the swarm of Moorish vessels which for centuries preyed upon the merchantmen of southern and western Europe. When they captured a European ship, the crew and passengers were carried off to Algiers and sold as slaves; if there were women on board, they were bought for the harems of rich Moors. In 1816 England sent a great fleet to Algiers and after a very heavy bombardment, effectually crippled the sea-power of its freebooting population.
[26] In 1745 the XVIIIth had a somewhat similar experience at Mons. See [p. 77].
[27] Millner.
[28] The engagement took place virtually on the same ground as the battle of Blenheim in 1704. French military writers always speak of the second battle as Hochstädt, which is confusing to the English student.
[29] From Parker we learn that the troops used to march off at 3 A.M.; about 9 they reached their camping ground, where “all manner of necessaries for man and horse awaited them, so that the soldiers had nothing to do but to pitch their tents, boil their kettles and lie down to rest.” This admirable system, carefully organised by Marlborough, whose care for his soldiers astonished his foreign colleagues, naturally came to an end after the army had passed out of the territories of the Allied Powers: once in the enemy’s country the British troops had to face many hardships.
[30] The regimental historians do not mention the strength of the detachment. Mr Fortescue states that the battalions on this occasion were made up of contingents of 130 officers and men from each British regiment.
[31] These were a battalion of the Guards, Royal Scots, and 23rd.
[32] ‘The Chronicles of an Old Campaigner,’ by M. de la Colonie (translated by Lieut.-Colonel W. C. Horsley), p. 185.