An Account of the Men loft and difabled in His Majefty's Land-Service, including two Battalions of Marines, ferving on Shore, by Death, Captivity, Defertion, Wounds or Sickness, in North America and the West Indies, from November 1, 1774, to the Date of the laft Returns, inclufive diftinguishing each Year's Corps and Service, fo far as the fame can be made up from Papers in the War-Office. Years. Service. 1774, North America, under Generals Gage and Hal Corps. dimand, British Weft Indies Ditto 1775, North America, under Generals Haldimand, Gage, and Howe, Ditto Weft Indies Ditto 121 ~ 2 ww Dead. 39 781 Total number of prisoners by the laft return of each year. (1) 115 under Sir William Howe, Ditto 869 744 192 1776, North America, Weft Indies under Sir Guy Carleton, Ditto 200 48 68 Ditto 86 777, North America, under Sir William Howe, under Sir Guy Carleton, under General Burgoyne, (3) Ditto 220 (4) 484 West Indies Ditto 303 AL NOWOGEN N Discharged. (2) 16 264 ooo 34 Ditto 58 166 38 30 Ditto Ditto Weft Indies 2033 256 172 145 178 (1) The war-office have not the means of afcertaining the number of men loft by captivity, having no account of what the whole number of prifoners taken in any one year may be, or of the prifoners that may have been exchanged in the courfe of it. They only know what the number of prifoners are at the time that the return is made. (2) The monthly returns not affigning the reafons for which foldiers are difcharged, the war-office cannot, mifbehaviour, claimed as apprentices, claimed by other corps, draughted from one regiment to another, or (3) (4) (5) (6) The prifoners of the army under these heads, are fuch as were taken by the enemy previous British rank and file. VOL. XVIII. |