Our losses during the forty-four days' campaign had been considerable, as the table of casualties on page 107 proves. Hitherto the old 56th Regiment (now the Essex) has been the only regiment entitled to carry the battle honour "Moro." The Royal Scots have always, but as yet unsuccessfully, advanced their claim to this distinction. The above facts show that the Scottish Rifles and the Royal Sussex have an equal claim with the Royals to the double distinction. In conformity with our usual custom, the island was restored to the Spaniards on the conclusion of the war, to be conquered by our American cousins 130 years subsequently. In those days the ardour of our sailors and soldiers was whetted by the prospects of prize-money, and the capture of Havana, whilst it brought wealth to the senior officers, brought consolation also to all ranks in the shape of a rich distribution of doubloons. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY FOR THE CAPTURE OF HAVANA. NAVY. £ _s._ _d._ Commander-in-Chief 122,697 0 0 Commodore 24,539 0 0 Captain 1,600 0 0 Lieutenants 234 0 0 Warrant officers 118 0 0 Petty officers 17 5 0 Seamen 3 14 9 ARMY. £ _s._ _d._ Commander-in-Chief 122,697 0 0 Lieut.-General 24,539 0 0 Major-General 6,816 0 0 Field Officers 564 0 0 Captains 184 0 0 Subalterns 116 0 0 Sergeants 8 18 8 Corporals 6 16 6 Privates and drummers 4 1 8 ST. LUCIA, 1778. This honour was awarded in 1909 to the following regiments-- King's Own (Lancaster). Northumberland Fusiliers. East Yorkshire. Inniskilling Fusiliers. Gloucester. Cornwall Light Infantry. Border Regiment. Royal Sussex. South Lancashire. Royal Berkshire. --for their services at the capture of the island from the French, and for its gallant defence a few days later against a vastly superior force. On the outbreak of war between France and England in 1778 the French at once assumed the offensive in the West Indies by the capture of Dominica on September 8, that island, with a garrison of barely 500 men, being compelled to surrender to the Marquis de Bouillé, who landed some 8,000 troops, drawn from the large forces massed in Martinique and Guadeloupe, which, in pursuance of our time-honoured custom, had been restored to France at the end of the previous war in 1763. In the month of November a combined naval and military expedition under Admiral Barrington and Major-General James Grant left Barbados for the reduction of St. Lucia. It numbered some 6,000 men, composed as under: