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��British Losses in the Revolution.
��[April,
��BRITISH LOSSES IN THE REVOLUTION,
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 ParHament 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
��At Lexington and Concord
Bunker Hill
Ticonderoga and Quebec
On the Lake, by General Arnold
Sullivan's Island
Ceder
Norfolk, in Virginia
Different Actions on Long Island
Harlem and Hell's Gate
New York, in time of landing
White Plains, General McDougal
Fort Washington
Fort Lee
Trenton Hessians
Princetown
Boston Road, by Admiral Hardy
Transports taken
Danbury
Iron Hill, near Elk
Brandy Wine
Reden Road, by General Maxwell
Staten Island, by General Sullivan
Bennington
Fort Montgomery
Fort Mifflin and -Red Bank
General Burgoyne's Army
Deserted 1,100
��Killed.
��43
746
81
93 191
40 129 840 236
57 450 900
20
35 74
52
260
59 800
40
94
200
580
328
2,100
��8,448
��Wounded.
��70 1,150
no
64
264
70
175 660
111
100
490
1,500
30
60
100
90
350
80
1,170
60
150
1,100
700
53 1,126
��10,495
��Prisoners.
��350
��40 60
43
��270
��948 210 750
390 40 20
��27S 1,100
84 5.572
��10,155
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