[50] [_Sic._ This word is rather misleading. Some formation less than a regiment is meant.—ED.] [51] Voiskovoi Starshina = Lieutenant-Colonel } Esaoul = Captain } Of Sotnik = Lieutenant } Cossacks. Khorunji = Cornet } [52] In the wars with Turkey and Persia, in the Caucasus and Central Asia. [53] [The first portion of this chapter, which is a recapitulation of what has already been written in Chapters I. to VII., has been omitted from this translation. What is now given touches more upon the war itself.—ED.] [54] [About 1–1/3 miles to the inch.—ED.] [55] [_Sic._ Killed and wounded (see p. 207, Vol I.).—ED.] [56] [At the Sha Ho.—ED.] [57] [At Mukden.—ED.] [58] [Possibly the author refers to China, Japan, and India being young in a national sense.—ED.] [59] [? Telegram.—ED.] [60] [General Linievitch.—ED.] [61] [? 1904 and 1905 also.—ED.] [62] [The name of General Kuropatkin’s country estate in the province of Pskoff.—ED.] [63] [This chapter is composed of the introduction and conclusion to Volume III. of the original, which have been translated, as they add some light on points not touched upon in Volume IV.—ED.] [64] Eighteen infantry battalions, 25 squadrons, 86 guns total, 19,000 rifles and sabres. [65] Two of them sapper battalions. The third battalions formed in Russia for all the East Siberian Rifle Regiments were only then beginning to arrive. [66] The Viceroy’s letter (No. 2,960) of June 6 called attention to the necessity of “bearing in mind measures to guard against the event of an advance by Kuroki.” [67] 1st and 9th East Siberian Rifle Divisions, and 2nd Brigade of the 35th Division. [68] [There are several passes of this name.—ED.] [69] [This action is apparently what is elsewhere known as that of Chiao-tou.—ED.] [70] [The reasons for this are given in great detail in Volume IV.—_i.e._, Chapters I. to XII. of this book.—ED.] [71] This regiment did splendidly in later fights. [72] The 122nd Tamboff Regiment was attacked when bivouacking. [73] The positions held on August 31 by the portion of Kuroki’s army that crossed the river were only eleven miles from the railway. [74] [? Houton.—ED.] [75] The corps also arrived at the front with a shortage of about 400 men per regiment—_i.e._, 1,600 per division. [76] Less one brigade garrisoning Tieh-ling. [77] [Presumably because it was destined for the 2nd Army.—ED.] [78] Including Rennenkampf’s column, Shtakelberg had under him 85 battalions, 43 _sotnias_, 174 guns, and 3 sapper battalions. [79] A very large number of men, particularly of the 1st Corps, left the ranks without reason. At Mukden, however, this corps fought with great gallantry and steadiness. [80] [Grippenberg had already been appointed to the command of the 2nd Army.—ED.] [81] From Ssu-chia-tun station to Ta-wang-chiang-pu. [82] From Fu-shun to Ma-chia-tun.