BRITISH BATTLES IN ELEVEN YEARS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 26 June 1885, Page 7

BRITISH BATTLES IN ELEVEN YEARS.

(From the Pall Matt Gazette.') Tee following is a list of British battles, with the losses thereat fought in the last eleven years, from Amoaful to the fight at Baker's zereba on Sunday. At Amoaful, where Sir Garnet Wolseley routed the Asbantees, our loss was seven killed and 200 wounded. At P«iiw&r Kotal (Afghan war,. General Roberts), our loss was two officers and ten men killed, and two officers, seventy-one men wounded* At Isandlana (Zulu, Col. Durnford), all our men were killed — twenty -three officers, 500 men, and 1,000 natives. At Rorke's Drift we lost seventeen killed and tea wounded. At Slobane Mountain, South Africa, we lost eleven officers,' and eighty men killed and wounded. At Ekowe our loss was trifling, there being scarcely more than forty-one killed and wounded. At Dlundi we lost 104 killed and wounded. At Oharasiab, in the second Afghan war, General Roberts, marching to Oabul, lost in action twenty-four killed and ,fif ty-ssven wounded. At Cabul, where the fighting lasted three or four days and Roberts retreated to the Sherpur cantonments, we loat sixty two killed and 164 wounded. General Gough, struggling to relieve Sberpur, loßt five killed and thirty-three wounded. At Ahmed Khel we lost seventeen killed and 124 wounded. At Maiwand, when General Burrows was defeated by Ayoob Khan, we lost twenty-one officers, 300 English, and 700 natives killed, fifteen officers and ninety men missing. At Mazra, when General Roberts defeated Ayoob Khan and brought the war to an end, we lost twenty-nine killed and 161 wounded. At Laing's Nek our losses were eighty-one killed and missing, and 109 wounded. At Ingogo we lo3t 150 killed and wounded, and at Majuba eighty-five killed, 131 wounded, and sixty prisoners taken. At Tel-el-Kebir we lost nine officers and forty-five men killed, seventeen wounded, twenty-five non-commissioned officers and privates killed and 123 wounded. At Tamasi our loss was five officers and eighty -six men killed, eight officers and 105 men wounded. At Abu-Klea we lost nine officers and sixty-five men killed, nine officers and eighty-five men wounded. At the battle of Gubat we lost nineteen killed and 66 wounded. At Hasheen on Friday our loss was twenty-one killed and forty-two wounded. la the battle of Sunday we lost seven officers and sixty-three men killed, six officers and eighty-nine men wounded, besides a large number of men belonging to the Indian contingent.