We have been asked by several correspondents to set forth in a short table the losses in the battles recorded in the present volume, and we take the opportunity of doing so, adding a rough estimate of the Boer force opposed. The Boer losses, unhappily, cannot be ascertained with the slightest accuracy, and even the estimates of their armies are largely conjectural. It should be noted that only combatants--cavalry, artillery, and infantry--are included in our figures, and that deductions are made for details absent at the base, for the sick, and for men not present for duty. The numbers in one or two instances differ slightly from those of the text of the work, the latest official returns necessarily differing in some cases from the figures obtained on the battlefield.
-------------+------+----------+-----------+----------+-------+------+------ | | | |Prisoners | | | | | | | and | |Brit- | | | Killed. | Wounded. | Missing. | | ish | Boer | +----------+-----------+----------| Total |Force |Force | |Offi-| |Offi-| |Offi-| |Casual-| En- | En- Battle of |Date. |cers.|Men.|cers.| Men.|cers.|Men.| ties. |gaged.|gaged. -------------+------+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+-------+------+------ Dundee |Oct. | 8 | 40 | 11 | 84 | 25 | 306| 474 | 3,400| 7,000 |20. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Elandslaagte |Oct. | 5 | 50 | 30 | 169 | 0 | 4| 258 | 3,500| 2,000 |21. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rietfontein |Oct. | 1 | 11 | 6 | 98 | 0 | 2| 118 | 5,100|7,000? |24. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Farquhar's |Oct. | 6 | 57 | 9 | 244 | 43 | 925| 1,284 |10,000|20,000 Farm and |30. | | | | | | | | | Nicholson's | | | | | | | | | | Nek | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Belmont |Nov. | 3 | 50 | 25 | 220 | 0 | 0| 298 | 8,000|3,000? |23. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Willow Grange|Nov. | 0 | 11 | 1 | 66 | 1 | 8| 87 | 3,500| 2,000 |23. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enslin |Nov. | 3 | 13 | 6 | 163 | 0 | 9| 194 | 7,500| 2,500 |25. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Modder River |Nov. | 4 | 66 | 20 | 393 | 0 | 2| 485 | 9,000| 8,000 |28. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stormberg |Dec. | 0 | 32 | 7 | 51 | 13 | 619| 722 | 2,500|1,000? |10. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Magersfontein|Dec. | 23 |148 | 45 | 646 | 0 | 108| 970 |12,500|10,000 |11. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Colenso |Dec. | 7 |128 | 43 | 719 | 21 | 207| 1,125 |15,000|10,000 |15. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Week of |Jan. | | | | | | | | | Battles and |17-24.| 27 |245 | 53 |1,050| 7 | 351| 1,733 |17,500|12,000 Spion Kop | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Vaal Krantz |Feb. | 2 | 23 | 18 | 326| 0 | 5| 374 |15,000|10,000 |5-7. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -------------+------+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+-------+------+------