Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were corrected when the change was obvious.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

The index was not systematically checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Sidenotes in this eBook contain the text of running headers in the original book. They have been placed between paragraphs that were near those headers. Like the original headers, the sidenotes are not necessarily at the beginnings of the topics to which they refer.

Page 193: “lost so many men as the 2nd” was misprinted with a gap where the word “as” should have been; corrected here.

Page 252: “to two of three” was printed that way.

Page 295: Transcriber added a missing closing quotation mark after “if we fancied it.” The correct position may be later in the paragraph.

Tables on pages 333, 340 and 341: Asterisks in these tables are not references to footnotes; their purpose is explained on page 333: “The star * affixed to a battalion’s station means that it had just returned from Sir John Moore’s Corunna Campaign.”

Page 339: “only two (2/5th 2/34th, 2/38th)” was printed that way, with “two” and no comma after the first number.

Footnote 344, originally on page 338: “97th, 90th, 101st, 102nd” probably includes a misprint, as “90th” is out of sequence and already was mentioned in Footnote 341.