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1st Madras Fusiliers 78th Highlanders Aden advance Alam-bágh Allahabad Alum Bâgh Alumbagh appointment army arrival artillery attack Bagh Baroda battery Bengal Bombay Government Brigadier British Government Bushahr Bushire Calcutta camp Captain cause cavalry Cawnpore Chief Colonel Outram command Commander-in-Chief Court of Directors cross despatch detachment Dil Khoosha division duty effect enemy enemy's European expressed favour fire force friends Fusiliers Gáikawár gallant garrison Government of India Governor Governor-General guns Havelock Herat honour hope horse India infantry Kánhpur Khatpat Lakhnau letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Dalhousie Lord Elphinstone Lordship Lucknow Madras Majesty ment miles military months Muhamra Napier native occasion occupied officers operations Oude Oudh passed Persian picquet political position reached rear rebels received Regiment reinforcements rendered reply Residency river road round shot sent Sir Colin Sir James Outram Sir James's soldiers Stalker steamer tion treaty troops wounded wrote
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Page 430 - Your exemplary conduct, 78th, in every respect, throughout the past eventful year, I can truly say, and / do most emphatically declare, has never been surpassed by any troops of any nation in any age, whether for indomitable valour in the field, or steady discipline in the camp, under an amount of fighting, hardship, and privation such as British troops have seldom, if ever, heretofore been exposed to.
Page 272 - 2. Hastily assembled, fatigued by forced marches, but animated by a common feeling of determination to accomplish the duty before them, all ranks of this force have compensated for their small number, in the execution of a most difficult duty, by unceasing exertions.
Page 270 - The movement of retreat was admirably executed, and was a perfect lesson in such combinations. Each exterior line came gradually retiring through its supports, till at length nothing remained but the last line of infantry and guns, with which I was myself to crush the enemy if he had dared to follow up the pickets. The only line of retreat lay through a long and tortuous lane, and all these precautions were absolutely necessary to ensure the safety of the force.
Page 207 - I shall join you with the reinforcements, but to you shall be left the glory of relieving Lucknow, for which you have already so nobly struggled.
Page 268 - In a few minutes the whole of the buildings were in our possession, and have since been armed with cannon, and steadily held against all attacks.
Page 97 - Mosahibod-Doula, two fiddlers; two poetasters, and the minister and his creatures. The minister could not stand a moment without the eunuchs, fiddlers, and poets, and he is obliged to acquiesce in all the orders given by the king for their benefit. The fiddlers have control over the administration of civil justice ; the eunuchs over that of criminal justice, public buildings, &c. The minister has the land revenue ; and all are making enormous fortunes.
Page 220 - Concurring, as the Commander-in-Chief does, in everything stated in the just eulogy of the latter by Sir James Outram, his Excellency takes this opportunity of publicly testifying to the army his admiration for an act of self-sacrifice and generosity, on a point which, of all others, is dear to a real soldier.
Page 253 - Excellency ray intense admiration of the noble spirit displayed by all ranks and grades of the force since we entered Lucknow. Themselves placed in a state of siege, — suddenly reduced to scanty and unsavoury rations, — denied all the little luxuries, (such as tea, sugar, rum, and tobacco,) which, by constant use, had become to them almost necessaries of life, — smitten, in many cases, by the same scorbutic affections and other evidences of debility, which prevailed amongst the original garrison,...
Page 273 - That ground was won by fighting as hard as it ever fell to the lot of the Commander-in-Chief to witness, it being necessary to bring up the same men over and over again to fresh attacks ; and it is with the greatest gratification that his Excellency declares he never saw men behave better. 5. The storming of the Secundrab&gh and the Shah Nujeef has never been surpassed in daring, and the success of it was most brilliant and complete.
Page 256 - But it is so obviously to the advantage of the State that the Gwalior rebels should be first effectually destroyed, that our relief should be a secondary consideration. I trust, therefore, that Brigadier Wilson will furnish Colonel Grant with every possible aid to effect that object before sending him here.