Second Battalion, Seventieth Highlanders 700
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Total 1,900


Lower ford, under the command of Lieutenant-General
Knyphausen:

Second Brigade, consisting of the Fourth, Killed and
Fifth, Tenth, Fifteenth, Twenty-third, wounded.
Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Fortieth,
Forty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Regiments 2,240 580
Hessians to the amount of 800 28
Queen's Rangers 480 290
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Total 3,520 898
1,900
4,860 1,088
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The whole British force 10,280 1,986
1,986
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8,294"

The estimate, says Mr. Headley, of the total force which the British
had on the field, makes the two armies actually engaged about equal.
The heavy loss here given seems, at first sight, almost incredible, and
puts an entirely different aspect on the battle. Of the authenticity