And he would think it was a great one, too, and he would say, "With three thousand I whipped sixty thousand and founded the Empire--and there is no monument; this other soldier must have whipped a billion with a dozen and saved the world." But he would be mistaken.

Ochterlony was a man, not a battle.

And he did good and honorable service, too; as good and honorable service as has been done in India by seventy-five or a hundred other Englishmen of courage, rectitude, and distinguished capacity.

For India has been a fertile breeding-ground of such men, and remains so; great men, both in war and in the civil service, and as modest as great.

But they have no monuments, and were not expecting any.