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FOOTNOTES
[ [1] Four troops of life guards, ten regiments of horse, five of dragoons, forty-seven battalions of foot.
[ [2] I had almost written that France was then, as always, the first military nation; and though Prussia wrested the position from her under Frederick the Great and again in 1870, the lesson of history seems to teach that she is as truly the first military, as England is the first naval, nation.
[ [3] Belhomme, p. 153.
[4] Feuquières.
[5] That is to say, of land-transport. After the sad experience of the Irish war the marine transport was entrusted to an officer specially established for the purpose.—Commons Journals.
[6] I spell the village according to the popular fashion in England, and according to the Flemish pronunciation. So many names in Flanders seem to halt between the Flemish and the French that it is difficult to know how to set them down.
[7] Fifty-three battalions of infantry and seven regiments of dragoons.—Beaurain.