Sussex | | | | | | | | Regt.) | 1 | 2 | - | 19 | 26 | 17 | |40th Foot (1st | | | | | | | | South | | | | | | | | Lancashire) | - | - | 1 | 9 | 13 | 10 | |42nd (Royal | | | | | | | | Highlanders) | - | - | 9 | 3 | 8 | 73 | |43rd Foot (1st | | | | | | | | Oxford L.I.) | - | 1 | - | 10 | 15 | 13 | |46th Foot (2nd | | | | | | | | Cornwall L.I.) | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |48th Foot (1st | | | | | | | | Northamptonshire)| - | - | 3 | 8 | 30 | 10 | |56th Foot | | | | | | | | (2nd Essex) | - | - | 2 | 36 | 83 | 85 | |60th Foot (King's | | | | | | | | Royal Rifles) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 63 | 13 | |65th Foot (1st | | | | | | | | York and | | | | | | | | Lancaster) | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | |72nd Foot (1st | | | | | | | | Seaforth | | | | | | | | Highlanders) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 27 | 85 | |77th Foot (2nd | | | | | | | | Middlesex) | 1 | 3 | - | 3 | 8 | 16 | |90th Foot (2nd | | | | | | | | Scottish Rifles) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 35 | 49 | |98th Foot (2nd N. | | | | | | | | Staffords) | - | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 32 | +------------------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+--------+ | Totals. | 15 | 19 | - | 284 | 586 | - | +------------------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+--------+ In addition to the losses in action, it will be noticed that 39 officers and 641 N.C.O.'s and men died of disease. With the Moro in our possession, the capitulation of the island was a mere matter of time, and on August 14 the Captain-General signed the articles of surrender of the Island of Cuba to the British forces. Ninety-one officers and 29,700 of other ranks surrendered as prisoners of war, and Admiral Pocock had the satisfaction of taking possession of thirteen Spanish line-of-battle ships.
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