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.
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---------------+ | | Number of | CASUALTIES | | | Officers +------------------------------------------+ | CORPS. | who did |Killed | Died | | | | | | Duty with | in | of |Died of | | In- | | | each Corps.|Action.|Wounds.|Disease.|Wounded.|valided.| +-------------+------------+-------+-------+--------+-------
-+--------+ | 1st Punjab | | | | | | | | Cavalry (1 | | | | | | | | squadron) | 12 | 1 | ... | ... | 6 | 7 | | 2nd Punjab | | | | | | | Cavalry | 20 | 1 | ... | ... | 5 | 4 | | 5th Punjab | | | | | | | | Cavalry (1 | | | | | | | | squadron) | 7 | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | | 1st Punjab | | | | | | | | Infantry | 15 | 3 | ... | ... | 6 | ... | | 2nd Punjab | | | | | | | | Infantry | 22 | 3 | ... | ... | 4 | 3 | | 4th Punjab | | | | | | | | Infantry | 24 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | ... | +-------------+------------+-------+-------+--------+-------
-+--------+ | Total | 100 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 14 | +-------------+------------+-------+-------+--------+-------
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[Footnote 7:  Captain Younghushand was at Bozai-Gumbaz, and Lieutenant Davison on the Alichur Pamirs, both places being south of the Aksu branch of the Oxus, flowing from the Little Pamir Lake.]

[Footnote 8:  The Infantry comprised twenty-four battalions drawn up in line of quarter columns.  The Artillery consisted of one battery (six 7-pounders) carried on elephants, six batteries (six guns each, 5-pounders and 7-pounders) dragged by soldiers, and six batteries (six guns each, 3-pounders and 5-pounders) carried by Bhutia coolies.]

[Footnote 9:  I am not unmindful of the visit which Sir Mortimer Durand paid to Kabul after I had left India, but on that occasion, I believe, the question of the defence of Afghanistan was not discussed.]

[Footnote 10:  The works were stopped after I left India, but not, I was glad to think, before the redoubts had been finished, with the communications thereto.  The reasons given were that a change of plans was necessary for economy’s sake, and that the construction of fortifications might induce the Natives to think we were doubtful of the continuance of our supremacy.  As regarded the first, I explained that the total outlay for works and armaments was estimated at only L332,274—­considerably less than

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