TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
The ERRATA section was printed on a page with extraneous text at the top and bottom (printer’s error). This has been removed.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
Eight occurrences of ‘Guadaloupe’ have been changed to ‘Guadeloupe’.
Pg ix: ‘Passage of the _Niver_’ replaced by ‘Passage of the _Nive_’.
Pg 24: ‘but in conquence’ replaced by ‘but in consequence’.
Pg 48: Sidenote ‘1810. 2nd Batt.’ replaced by ‘1810. 1st Batt.’.
Pg 79: Missing Sidenote ‘1836.’ inserted before ‘In February 1836’.
Pg 121: ‘THIRTH-NINTH’ replaced by ‘THIRTY-NINTH’.
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