Forty-one years in India eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,042 pages of information about Forty-one years in India.

Forty-one years in India eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,042 pages of information about Forty-one years in India.

[Footnote 1:  Greathed’s brigade consisted of the 8th and 64th Foot and 2nd Punjab Infantry.  Adrian Hope’s brigade consisted of the 53rd Foot, 42nd and 93rd Highlanders, and 4th Punjab Infantry.  Inglis’s brigade consisted of the 23rd Fusiliers, 32nd and 82nd Foot.  Walpole’s brigade consisted of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions Rifle Brigade and a detachment of the 38th Foot.]

[Footnote 2:  The Artillery consisted of Peel’s Naval Brigade, Blunt’s, Bridge’s and Remmington’s troops of Horse Artillery, Bourchier’s, Middleton’s, and Smith’s Field batteries, and Longden’s Heavy battery.]

[Footnote 3:  Mansfield was given the two Rifle Brigade battalions, the 93rd Highlanders, Longden’s Heavy, and Middleton’s Field battery.]

[Footnote 4:  Unjur Tiwari’s career was a very remarkable one.  A sepoy in the 1st Bengal Native Infantry, he was at Banda when the Mutiny broke out, and during the disturbances at that place he aided a European clerk and his wife to escape, and showed his disinterestedness by refusing to take a gold ring, the only reward they had to offer him.  He then joined Havelock’s force, and rendered excellent service as a spy; and although taken prisoner more than once, and on one occasion tortured, he never wavered in his loyalty to us.  Accompanying Outram to Lucknow, he volunteered to carry a letter to Cawnpore, and after falling into the hands of the rebels, and being cruelly ill-treated by them, he effected his escape, and safely delivered Outram’s message to Sir Colin Campbell.  He then worked for me most faithfully, procuring information which I could always thoroughly rely upon; and I was much gratified when he was rewarded by a grant of Rs. 3,000, presented with a sword of honour, and invested with the Order of British India, with the title of Sirdar Bahadur.  I was proportionately distressed some years later to find that, owing to misrepresentations of enemies when he was serving in the Oudh Military Police, Unjur Tiwari had been deprived of his rewards, and learning he was paralyzed and in want, I begged Lord Napier to interest himself in the matter, the result being that the brave old man was given a yearly pension of Rs. 1,200 for his life.  He was alive when I left India, and although he resided some distance from the railway he always had himself carried to see me whenever I travelled in his direction.]

[Footnote 5:  The garrison left at Cawnpore consisted of: 

  Four companies of the 64th Foot, and small
  detachments of other regiments 450 men. 
  Sailors 47 men.
                                             --------
  Total 497

with a hastily organized bullock battery of four field guns, manned partly by Europeans and partly by Sikhs.]

[Footnote 6:  The force was composed of the 34th Foot, and portions of the 82nd and 88th Foot, and 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade; with four 9-pounders, manned partly by Royal and Bengal gunners and partly by Sikhs; and four 6-pounders, manned by Madras Native gunners.]

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