Footnotes

[1]: See Convention concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land: The Hague, 1907, p. 47.

[2]: General Jourdan was surprised and heavily defeated at Amberg and Würzburg on the 24th August 1796 by Archduke Charles, brother of the Emperor of Austria.

Transcriber's Note

The following modifications have been made,

Page 125:
"Famechon" changed to "Faméchon"
(After lunch, M. le Médecin Chef Faméchon and Capt. Viguié)

Page 152:
"smypathy" changed to "sympathy"
(he showed a real sympathy for my state of health)

Page 165:
"," changed to "."
(than tactlessness or mismanagement. The gossips)

Page 173:
quotation marks inserted
("The Germans did not come back into the camp)

Page 254:
"corrider" changed to "corridor"
(was at the end of the corridor and the door)

Page 255:
"tablecloth" changed to "table-cloth"
(been allowed to buy a coloured cotton table-cloth)

Page 304:
"exggerated" changed to "exaggerated"
(I have drawn no exaggerated picture of that prison)


Not modified but retained as printed:

Page 70:
The date mentioned "23.8.11" might actually be "23.8.14".
(Since Sunday morning, 23.8.11, we have been fighting nearly)

Page 167: "kepi" / Page 211: "képi"

Page 24: "new-comers" / Page 165: "newcomers"