Appendix: Transcription notes:
This etext was transcribed from a volume of the 21st
printing
The following modifications were applied
while transcribing the printed book to e-text:
While the other books in this series are
consistently printed with a hyphen in “lieutenant-colonel”,
some chapters in this book were printed with and
some without. I added the hyphen where missing
in chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 14.
chapter 1
— Page 20, para 10, changed “its”
to “it’s”
chapter 2
— Page 45, para 6, removed extraneous
quotation mark
chapter 6
— Page 132, para 3, moved a comma
— my general policy is not to
add/remove/move commas, even
though I often find commas which
seem to me out of place, but
this one was just too bad to ignore
chapter 8
— Page 159, para 2, fixed typo (“enmy”)
— Page 167, para 5, missing quotation
mark
chapter 10
— Page 211, para 4, missing quotation
mark
— Page 216, para 6, changed “his
section” to “this section”
chapter 11
— Page 225, para 4, fixed typo (“Generel”)
chapter 12
— Page 249, para 4, fixed typo (“exerienced”)
— Page 261, para 4, fixed typo (“woud”)
— Page 262, para 1, removed excess
quotation mark
chapter 13
— Page 277, para 3, missing quotation
mark
— Page 292, para 3, apostrophe printed
instead of quotation mark
chapter 14
— Page 298, para 4, changed “Its”
to “It’s”
— Page 312, para 6, missing quotation
mark
— Page 314, para 4, changed “.”
to “:”
— Page 315, para 5, removed excess
period
chapter 15
— Page 329, para 5, fixed typo (“painly”)
— Page 331, para 1, fixed typo (“caried”)
— Page 331, para 11, changed apostrophe
to quotation mark
Limitations imposed by converting to plain ASCII:
8-bit characters
were converted to their 7-bit equivalents:
— chapter 9, page 186, “melee”
— chapter 11, page 241, “Themopylae”
(“ae” ligature)
I did not modify:
— As with all the books in this series,
commas often seem to me to be
missing or misplaced. Often
one comma is printed where either no
comma or two commas would seem more
appropriate, for example:
A pleasant month for
Harry, and all the young staff officers passed
at Winchester.
