It is right, therefore, that he should share with Lord Elgin the credit of having so quickly grasped the magnitude of the crisis through which India was passing.] [Footnote 4: Owing to Brigadier-General Chamberlain having been placed _hors de combat_ by the severe wound he received the previous day, Norman was carrying on the duties of Adjutant-General.] [Footnote 5: There were besides in camp at this time 1,535 sick and wounded, notwithstanding that several hundred men had been sent away.] * * * * *.