 These translations were sent to the editor of the "United Service Magazine", but no acknowledgement was ever received, at least directly.However, many years later Knoop received an indirect indication that his book "had" registered, when in the February 17, 1855 issue of the magazine "Athenaeum", in a review of another historical article by his hand (quite unrelated) he was introduced as the man "...who acquired his first reputation by an angry and dashing attack on captain Siborne.