[7] Sixty versts is roughly forty miles, one verst being equal to 1,166 yards.
[8] This refers to the Boxer rising (see Official History, Part II., p. 16).
[9] This seems to be underestimated, as the Official History gives 4,400 yards as the breadth of the position. The author evidently means that at low water the whole breadth of the peninsula was 8 versts, which agrees with other accounts.
[10] On the Pi-tzu-wo road, but not shown on map.
[11] Official accounts state that as many as 5,000 Chinese coolies were employed.
[12] As a fact the armour of the Japanese ships built in England was as good as any of its date, all of it being hardened in accordance with modern processes.
[13] General Tretyakov was evidently still under the impression that three Russian battleships had been blown up. The Russians had in reality four first-class battleships still unharmed—Petropavlovsk, Pobieda, Poltava, and Peresviet.
[14] The 13th, 14th, and 15th Regiments were actually posted in rear of the 5th during the battle, but did little to support it.
[15] See [Note 3] at end of book.
[16] See Official History, Part II., p. 11. This news must have come from some of Colonel Rantsov’s cossacks.