Chapter 31

On Page 383, changed Signed to signed in The Treaty Signed in the topics list at the beginning of Chapter 31 to match the presentation in the contents.

On Page 401, mid-summer was hyphenated and split between two lines in the sentence: The pitiless sun of the tropic midsummer poured its fierce light and heat on the parched rocks where the men toiled at the trenches. There are four other occurrences of midsummer in the text spelled without the hyphen, and none with, so midsummer was transcribed without the hyphen.

On Page 405, pleni-potentiaries was hyphenated and split between two lines in the clause: the plenipotentiaries of England, France, and Spain. There is one other occurrence of plenipotentiary, on page 79 in volume 1, and it is spelled without the hyphen. Plenipotentiaries was transcribed without the hyphen.

Index:

We are more willing to make changes to the Index than we are in the text when we believe the reader may be better served by doing so. For instance, we will make emendations an Index entry when the word is spelled differently than it was in the text.

Four times in the index, fireships was spelled with a hyphen. These hyphens were taken out to match the text. See the detailed notes for