+------------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |Royal Artillery | | | | | |Grenadier Gds. | | | | | |Coldstream Gds. | | | | | |4th K.O. (R. Lancaster Regt.) | | | | | |13th Somerset L.I. | | | | | |Roy. Engineers | | | | | |30th East Lancashire | | | | | |31st E. Surrey | | | | | |32nd Cornwall L.I. | 1 | - | - | - | |35th R. Sussex | | | | | +------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ NOTE.--I have been unable to ascertain the casualties of individual corps at Gibraltar. I leave this table in the hope that at some future day the omission may be repaired; the total losses amounted to 3 officers and 57 men killed, 8 officers and 258 men wounded. A combined battalion of the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards, the 13th (Somerset Light Infantry), and the 35th (Royal Sussex), some 1,800 of all ranks, embarked on transports. Narrowly escaping capture,[1] they succeeded in eluding the French fleet, and landed in Gibraltar Harbour on December 18. On the 23rd Prince George made a successful sortie at the head of his new troops, and destroyed a considerable portion of the siege-works; but the allies, having the land side open to them, were able to bring up supplies and fresh troops without difficulty, whereas we were dependent entirely on our fleet--in fact, on our command of the sea. In the early dawn of February 7, 1705, the allies made a determined attempt to carry the place by assault, but they were repulsed with terrible loss by the Coldstream Guards and the 13th (Somersets); then, finding their efforts useless, they abandoned the siege. Seventy-five years later a fresh attempt to dispossess us of the fortress led to a new battle honour appearing on the colours, but the siege of 1727 has been unaccountably lost sight of. GIBRALTAR, 1727.