BRITISH LOSSES IN THE REVOLUTION.
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FROM APRIL 19, 1775, TO THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL BURGOYNE, OCTOBER 17, 1777
[The following account of the losses of the British in the Revolution, for the first thirty months of the war, is taken from The London Magazine of February, 1778, and is interesting in that it differs from all the statements that appear in our United States Histories of that portion of the war.--ED.]
In March, 1776, the Parliament of Great Britain Voted 42,390 Men for the Service of America; These troops Landed Accordingly, And have Lost agreeable to their Returns as Followeth:--
Places Where Killed. Wounded. Prisoners.
At Lexington and Concord 43 70
Bunker Hill 746 1,150
Ticonderoga and Quebec 81 110 350
On the Lake, by General Arnold 93 64
Sullivan's Island 191 264
Ceder 40 70
Norfolk, in Virginia 129 175 40
Different Actions on Long Island 840 660 60
Harlem and Hell's Gate 236 773 43
New York, in time of landing 57 100
White Plains, General McDougal 450 490 270
Fort Washington 900 1,500
Fort Lee 20 30
Trenton Hessians 35 60 948
Princetown 74 100 210
Boston Road, by Admiral Hardy 52 90 750
Transports taken 390
Danbury 260 350 40
Iron Hill, near Elk 59 80 20
Brandy Wine 800 1,170
Reden Road, by General Maxwell 40 60
Staten Island, by General Sullivan 94 150 278
Bennington 200 1,100 1,100
Fort Montgomery 580 700
Fort Mifflin and Red Bank 328 53 84
General Burgoyne's Army 2,100 1,126 5,572
Deserted 1,100
8,448 10,495 10,155
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