[1] Three companies of the 13th Regiment were captured and interned at Nantes until the conclusion of the war.

[2] So far back as the year 1710 Lord Portmore had addressed strong remonstrances as to the condition of the defences and the weakness of the garrison, begging for money and for engineer officers to supervise the proposed works.

[3] Then numbered the 87th and 88th Regiments.

[4] The existing 2nd Batt. Seaforths has not been awarded this battle honour.

[5] Neither the Royal Munster nor Royal Dublin Fusiliers, which for many years bore the numbers 103rd and 104th, have availed themselves of the privilege accorded to the 19th Hussars and 100th Royal Canadians.

[6] For details of casualties at Pondicherry, see p. 61.

[7] These recruits were attached to the Artillery, and did excellent work throughout the siege, losing 65 per cent. of their number killed.

[8] The men were glad to eat the frogs, rats, and water-snakes, which were caught in the ditch of the works. Officers' chargers had been salted down for the sick, and it was not until the last joint of "salt horse" had been served out to the hospital, and the last barrel of flour broached, that the gallant Campbell capitulated.

[9] The casualties given on the preceding page show that the 3rd Dragoon Guards at any rate suffered heavily at Villers-en-Couches.

[10] The Sultan of Turkey bestowed gold medals on all officers present in the campaign, and permission to wear these was accorded by the King.

[11] The battle honour "Egypt, 1884," was granted to the 10th and 19th Hussars, Royal Highlanders, King's Royal Rifles, York and Lancaster Regiment, and Gordon Highlanders, for an expedition in the vicinity of Suakin in the spring of this year. See Appendix I.

[12] This clasp covered the operations in September, 1803, and October, 1804.

[13] The one clasp covered the battle on November 15 and the assault on December 23, 1804.

[14] Now the Royal Munster Fusiliers.

[15] The 26th did, indeed, return to the Peninsula, but they were employed in the thankless task of performing garrison duty at Lisbon, and not having been actively engaged, have not received the battle honour.

[16] These figures include the losses during the operations at Badajoz in 1811. The 51st and 97th were not present in 1812, so these regiments do not bear the battle honour "Badajoz."

[17] The Household Cavalry do not bear the honour "Vittoria," nor do they figure in the casualty returns, but Lord Wellington, in submitting the medal rolls, included Major Camac of the 1st Life Guards, Captain Jackson of the 2nd Life Guards, and Major Packe of the Royal Horse Guards, as entitled to gold medals for having commanded their regiments in this battle.

[18] Two companies of the Madras Sappers accompanied the expedition to Bourbon, but the battle honour has not yet been awarded to the 2nd Queen's Own Sappers and Miners.

[19] Field Officers of the regiments employed received £527; Captains, £82; Subalterns, £40; sergeants, £12; and privates, £2 10s.

[20] The battle honour "Burmah" was awarded to the 121st Pioneers for services in the squadron operating on the Burmese coast in the campaign of 1824-1826.

[21] The 44th (Essex) lost 22 officers and 645 N.C.O.'s and men in this disastrous retreat.

[22] Skinner's Horse, the 101st Grenadiers, and the 105th Mahratta Light Infantry were actively employed in Cutchee in 1839 under Colonel Billamore, but they have not been awarded the battle honour.

[23] Ramnuggur: 4 officers and 34 men killed; 13 officers and 72 men wounded.

[24] Sadoolapore: 2 officers and 14 men killed; 4 officers and 45 men wounded.

[25] At Jhelum the 24th lost 4 officers and 70 men killed and wounded; the losses of the 13th at Azimghur were but little inferior.

[26] The Detachment of the 69th lost 3 men killed and 4 wounded.

[27] Afterwards Field-Marshal the Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G.

[28] In these operations—West Africa, 1887, 1892-3-4—the West India Regiment lost 3 officers and 15 men killed, 4 officers and 72 men wounded.

[29] A native officer holding a rank equivalent to that of Captain commanding a company.

[30] The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment alone bears the Distinction "Defence of Kimberley." See Appendix 2.

[31] On the score of expense the Secretary of State for War had refused to propose a credit for the re-armament of our Field Artillery with modern quick-firing weapons, with the result that throughout the campaign our guns were completely outranged and outclassed.

[32] The regiments which have been authorized to bear this battle honour are—

13th Hussars.
14th Hussars.
The Queens.
The King's Own.
Royal Fusiliers.
Devons.
Somerset Light Infantry.
West Yorkshire.
Lancashire Fusiliers.
Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Scottish Rifles.
Inniskilling Fusiliers.
East Surrey.
Border.
Dorsets.
South Lancashire.
Middlesex.
King's Royal Rifles.
York and Lancaster.
Durham Light Infantry.
Royal Irish Fusiliers.
Connaught Rangers.
Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Rifle Brigade.

[33] The following regiments bear this distinction:

5th Dragoon Guards.
5th Lancers.
18th Hussars.
19th Hussars.
King's Liverpool.
Devons.
Leicester.
Gloucester.
King's Royal Rifles.
Manchester.
Gordon Highlanders.
Rifle Brigade.

[34] The strength of the garrison on November 2, 1899, was 13,496 of all ranks, the deaths up to the date of the Relief being exactly 600. Of these, 59 died from wounds and 541 from disease.

[35] D.C.M., medal for distinguished conduct in the field.