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��British Losses in the Revolution.

��[April,

��BRITISH LOSSES IN THE REVOLUTION,

From April 19, 1775, to the Surrender of General Burgoyne, October

17, 1777.

[The following account of the losses of the British in the Revolution, for the first thirty months of the war, is taken from The London Magazine of February, 1778, and is interesting in that it differs from all the statements that appear in our United States Histories of that portion of the war. — Ed.]

In March, 1776, the ParHament of Great Britain Voted 42,390 Men for the Service of America ; These troops Landed Accordingly, And have Lost agreeable to their Returns as Followeth : —

��Places Where

��At Lexington and Concord

Bunker Hill

Ticonderoga and Quebec

On the Lake, by General Arnold

Sullivan's Island

Ceder

Norfolk, in Virginia

Different Actions on Long Island

Harlem and Hell's Gate

New York, in time of landing

White Plains, General McDougal

Fort Washington

Fort Lee

Trenton Hessians

Princetown

Boston Road, by Admiral Hardy

Transports taken

Danbury

Iron Hill, near Elk

Brandy Wine

Reden Road, by General Maxwell

Staten Island, by General Sullivan

Bennington

Fort Montgomery

Fort Mifflin and -Red Bank

General Burgoyne's Army

Deserted 1,100

��Killed.

��43

746

81

93 191

40 129 840 236

57 450 900

20

35 74

52

260

59 800

40

94

200

580

328

2,100

��8,448

��Wounded.

��70 1,150

no

64

264

70

175 660

111

100

490

1,500

30

60

100

90

350

80

1,170

60

150

1,100

700

53 1,126

��10,495

��Prisoners.

��350

��40 60

43

��270

��948 210 750

390 40 20

��27S 1,100

84 5.572

��10,155

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