Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Transcriber’s Note

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page, and line in the original. The following issues should be noted, along with the resolutions.

The phrase 'line-of-battle ships' is sometimes printed without hyphenation, and occasionally as 'line-of-battleships'. Where 'line-of' is not employed, the word is always 'battleships. To assist searches, the hyphenated version 'line-of-battle ships' is applied here.

End-of-line hyphens are sometimes missing. It is presumed they have not survived in the text, and were handled as though present.

Proper place names are sometimes consistently misspelled and were left as printed: 'Guil[d]ford Court House', 'Spot[t]sylvania'.

The entry for the 1039 battle of Zendecan contains references to 'Moghrul Beg' of the Seljuks, and 'Masrud', sultan of Ghuzni. The index refers to the former as 'Mogrul Bey', 'Bey' being a variant of 'Beg'. However, separate historical texts consistently have the Seljuk ruler as 'Toghrul'. The text has been retained, but the issue noted.

On p. 143, the title of the article for 'Lunceña' is an obvious error for 'Lucena', which is supported by other sources and also falls correctly in the alphabetic order of the Dictionary.

[3L.22]	sallies of the bes[ei/ie]ged	Transposed.
[6L.9]	on the 18th the garrison surrendered[.]	Added.
[20L.40]	into the beleagu[e]red city.	Inserted.
[24R.17]	which is also know[n] as	Added.
[27R.31]	the Colombian patrots>	Inserted.
[32L.37]	under General Bizo[u/n]et	Inverted.
[33R.35]	the bridge of B[u/e]rgfried	Replaced.
[36L.20]	had taken up a positon	Inserted.
[39L.22]	Bovianum (S[ce/ec]ond Samnite War).	Transposed.
[40R.24]	by assault by Genera[l] Haynau	Added.
[45L.2]	inhabitants being mass[e/a]cred	Replaced.
[46R.4]	under Colonel Hartl[e]y	Inserted.
[47L.5]	16 line[-]of[-]battle ships	Inserted.
[56L.1]	under Cla[u/n]leu.	Inverted.
[59R.12]	was surrounded and overpowered, Chabrias falling[.]	Added.
[62L.34]	(Norman Invasion of Italy[)].	Inserted.
[65L.4]	sallies [Amurath,/, Amurath] was called away	Comma moved.
[65L.30]	Danish fleet of 10 line[-]of[-]battle[ ]ships	Inserted.
[67L.15]	Seleuc[n/u]s, though 81 years of age, defeated	Inverted.
[67R.28]	(Seven Years' War)[.]	Added.
[71R.22]	The Macedonians lost 13,000 killed and wounded[.]	Added,
[74L.32]	endeavoured to effect a landing at Dazaifu[,/.]	Added.
[75L.10]	Scindiah's army under Bour[g/q]uin	Replaced.
[80L.21]	10,000 killed and wounded[./,]	Replaced.
[80L.22]	15,000 prisoners, and 40 guns[,/.]	Replaced.
[81R.11]	30 of his k[in/ni]ghts,	Transposed.
[83L.10]	(Civil War of [Car an d/Cæsar and] Pompey).	Corrupted.
[83L.31]	when Mass[e/é]na’s] corps	Replaced.
[86L.10]	E[n/u]taw Springs (American War of Independence).	Replaced.
[89R.29]	near Fish Creek[,/.]	Replaced.
[92L.5]	and the Goths under C[u/n]iva	Transposed.
[93R.39]	Fuentes d’O[n/ñ]oro	Replaced.
[95R.29]	the royal troops under Lord Hunsdon[.]	Added.
[97R.1]	though at a heavy cost[.]	Added.
[99R.4]	and de Ruyter[,/.]	Replaced.
[102L.30]	but was unsucce[fss/ssf]ul	Transposed.
[104R.47]	he was totally defeated[,/.]	Replaced.
[104R.30]	and totally routed[,/.]	Replaced.
[106L.39]	under Martin Schenck[,/.]	Replaced.
[108R.21]	and the Syracusans[,\.]	Replaced.
[108R.26]	Helsingborg (Dano-[Spanish/Swedish] Wars).	Corrected.
[112R.35]	and with heavy loss[.]	Added.
[114R.11]	[B.C./A.D.] 1221,	Replaced.
[115L.33]	[I]nverkeithing	Restored.
[116L.31]	The British lost 167 killed[,] wounded	Added.
[116R.44]	Fought October, 740, between[,] the Japanese rebels	Removed.
[121R.12]	only 248 killed and wounded[.]	Added.
[124L.14]	compelled to retire to Quetta[h].	Removed.
[128L.36]	in the K[a/u]levtcha defile	Replaced.
[132L.23]	Fought [B.C.] 497, the first authentic date	Added.
[135L.41]	100,000 Prussians[sians], Russians,	Removed.
[135L.46]	when B[l]ucher captured the village	Inserted.
[138L.29]	Fought October 17, 1571, betwe[e]n	Inserted.
[138L.42]	The Dey of Algiers succeeded n extricating	Restored.
[143L.6]	a fleet of[ of] 41 ships of war	Removed.
[143R.7]	Lu[nceñ[/cen]a (War of Granada).	Replaced.
[144L.42]	Drummond occupied high ground	Removed.
[145L.33]	The Imperialists lost [27,000] killed and wounded.	sic: 2,700?
[149R.29]	and Bri[th/ht]noth slain.	Transposed.
[151L.40]	La[r]ches and Nicostratus both fell	Removed.
[156L.32]	when a Persian army, under Megabyzus[,] defeated	Added.
[158R.7]	Metaur[a/u]s (Second Punic War).	Replaced.
[160R.18]	The Per[vu/uv]ians were totally defeated	Transposed.
[161R.34]	by the discontented soldery	Inserted.
[163L.7]	being ignoran[t] of the fall of Genoa	Added.
[163L.46]	(Napoleon's Italian Campagns>).	Inserted.
[164L.28]	and forced to capitu[al/la]te.	Transposed.
[164L.33]	and the[,] Blancos,	Removed.
[165R.16]	under General d'Aspr[e/é]	Replaced.
[165R.19]	with[rd/dr]ew his force from the town	Transposed.
[165R.41]	Fought November 16, 1315[,/.]	Replaced.
[167R.19]	Kl[e/é]ber’s division	Replaced.
[169R.4]	Huzrat Mah[u/a]l, Begum of Oude	Replaced.
[172L.39]	from the field in confu[fu]sion	Removed.
[174R.3]	Fa[r]ragut forced the passage	Inserted.
[176L.36]	fought by Mith[d]ridates	Removed.
[179L.27]	with a loss of 15 ships[.]	Added.
[180L.18]	combined French and British squa[rd/dr]ons	Transposed.
[190L.25]	after a long and obs[int/tin]ate defence	Transposed.
[202R.45]	a[u/n]d the Spanish Royalists	Inverted.
[203L.38]	Pultusk [(]Campaign of Friedland).	Added.
[205L.35]	about 5,000 Americans, under Van Re[u/n]sselaer	Inverted.
[208L.14]	under General Bo[n/u]latoff	Replaced.
[208L.19]	Bo[n/u]latoff fell fighting	Replaced.
[215R.26]	under the walls of Saalfeld	Removed.
[223R.7]	about 4,000 strong[,].	Removed.
[223R.37]	under M[a/e]tellus	Replaced.
[223R.29]	but crosing the Tiber into Rome	Inserted.
[229L.5]	the further advance of the Confederates[,/.]	Replaced.
[229L.43]	and opened the gates[.]	Added.
[238L.32]	the Battle of Cambuskenneth[.]	Added.
[240L.7]	between the A[f]ghans	Inserted.
[240R.40]	and Lamach[a/u]s killed	Replaced.
[246L.28]	including their two generals[.]	Added.
[248R.14]	Antiochus the Great, King of Asia[,/.]	Replaced.
[249R.8]	under Bourl[a]maque	Removed.
[249L.44]	with a loss of [19,44/1,944] killed and wounded	Comma moved.
[250L.4]	attacking the Pontic cavalry in rear, broke it[,/.]	Replaced.
[253L.38]	between 26,000 Ca[r]thaginians,	Inserted.
[254L.30]	a British squa[rd/dr]on of 12 sail	Transposed.
[256R.9]	left the city to orga[in/ni]se a relief force	Transposed.
[264R.40]	(Japanese Revolu[lu]tion	Removed.
[265R.29]	and the Poles[,] were driven	Removed.
[272R.6]	under [Moghrul] Beg	Sic Toghrul
[273R.33]	after suffering con[si]derable loss	Inserted.

The Index was prepared by Harbottle's editorial successor, P.H. Dalbiac. The poor quality of the result is acknowledged in Mr Dalbiac's [preface]. We can assume that he was forced to send his work to the printers as-is.