1. Silently corrected typographical errors. 2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 4. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscript character, e.g. M^r. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Brief History of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, edited by Edward Hutton