INDEX. A. Officers. B. N. C. Officers. C. Gunners. D. Drummers. E. Total. F. Officers. G. N. C. Officers. H. Drivers. I. Trumpeters. J. Artificers. K. General Total. L. Total. M. Horses. +-------------------------------+------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | | ROYAL ARTILLERY. | ROYAL ARTILLERY DRIVERS. | | +---+----+------+---+------+---+---------------------------------------+ | | A.| B.| C. | D.| E. | F.| G.| H. | I.| J.| K. | L. | M.| +-------------------------------+--------+------+---+---------+-----+------+---------------+------+----+ |Relanded in Great Britain and }| 64| 178| 1,215| 16| 1,473| 14| 105| 1,116| 14| 97| 1,346| 2,819| 764| | Ireland, fit for service }| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |In Portugal, per return of | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1st January | 31| 84| 556| 11| 682| 2| 7| 219| 2| 28| 258| 940| | +-------------------------------+---+----+------+---+------+---+---------------+----+------+-----------+ | Total | 95| 262| 1,771| 27| 2,155| 16| 112| 1,335| 16| 125| 1,604| 3,759| 764| +-------------------------------+---+----+------+---+------+---+----+------+---+----+------+------+----+ N.B. There had been purchased, or otherwise obtained, in Portugal, and still remained effective, 146 horses and 78 mules; but as they had not been sent from England they are not included in the above table. CHAPTER XIV. WALCHEREN. An expedition has now to be described, to whose conception and partial execution justice has not been done by historians. Remembered, if at all, for its miserable termination, it is not unfrequently classed among the military operations which an Englishman had better forget. And yet there was a strategic value in the idea, which was proved even by its incomplete realisation; and there was a determination, and an uncomplaining suffering among the English troops, worthy of note in military story, which have been ill repaid by the nameless graves which crowd the island of Walcheren, and by the national forgetfulness of the expedition.