[33] The British losses given by Millner are practically the same as those adopted by Mr Fortescue (vol. i. p. 427). Sergeant Millner’s casualty return is worthy of reproduction.
| Corps loss. | Colonels. | Lt.-Colonels. | Majors. | Captains. | Subalterns. | Sentinels. | Total. | Total each K.andW. | |||||||
| K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | ||
| German (Horse and Foot) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 36 | 268 | 1130 | 284 | 1182 | 1466 |
| Hollanders | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 4 | 5 | 19 | 8 | 53 | 361 | 856 | 378 | 953 | 1311 |
| Hanover | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 189 | 417 | 204 | 451 | 655 |
| Hessians | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 91 | 195 | 97 | 223 | 320 |
| Britains (sic) | — | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 58 | 420 | 1001 | 452 | 1084 | 1536 |
| Total | 4 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 26 | 62 | 46 | 181 | 1329 | 3599 | 1415 | 3893 | 5308 |
Of the above corps there were of the lieutenant-generals killed 6, wounded 5; major-generals killed 2, wounded 2; brigadiers wounded 1.
[34] See [Appendix 2 (B)].
[35] See [Map No. 1].
[36] The practice of compelling or inducing prisoners of war to enlist in the army of their captors lasted until the nineteenth century. During the great war with France we had in our pay battalions composed of subjects of every country into which Napoleon had carried his arms. The Emperor had drafted them into his regiments, and when they were taken prisoners they usually preferred to earn pay by enlisting in our army to languishing at Dartmoor or in the hulks. Not unnaturally they showed, as a rule, no great anxiety to meet their former comrades in battle, and usually found their way to the West Indies as garrison troops.
[37] Some French historians, while they admit Tallard’s folly in disregarding the opinion of his colleagues, deny that he used the expression attributed to him by Parker, and father it upon St Ruth at Aughrim.
(Table—First Part; Batts=Battalions; Sqrns=Squadrons.)
| No. of | No. of | Lieutenant- | ||||||||
| Corps. | Batts. | Sqrns. | Colonels. | Colonels. | Majors. | Captains. | ||||
| Britains | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | ||
| Foot | 14 | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 44 |
| Horse and Dragoons | — | 18 | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 14 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 47 |
| Other Allies. | ||||||||||
| Holland’s | 14 | 19 | ||||||||
| Lunenberg’s | 13 | 25 | ||||||||
| Wirtemberg’s* | 7 | 12 | ||||||||
| Danes | — | 22 | ||||||||
| Germans** | 18 | 92 | ||||||||
| (11 batts. Prussian 7 do. Danes) | ||||||||||
| Total. | 66 | 188 | ||||||||