[Forty-one years in India by Frederick Sleigh Roberts]@TWC D-Link bookForty-one years in India CHAPTER XX 32/32
Detachments of three Punjab Cavalry regiments, the 1st, 2nd and 5th, commanded by Lieutenants John Watson, Dighton Probyn and George Younghusband, numbering in all 320 men.
A detachment of Hodson's Horse, commanded by Lieutenant Hugh Gough, and consisting of 180 men.
Two Punjab Infantry regiments, commanded by Captains Green and Wilde, each about 600 men; and 200 Sappers and Miners, with whom were Lieutenants Home and Lang.] [Footnote 2: Afterwards Sir Alfred Lyall, G.C.I.E., K.C.B., Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces, and now a member of the Indian Council.] [Footnote 3: Now General Sir William Drysdale, K.C.B.] [Footnote 4: The horse, although badly hurt, was not killed, and eventually did me good service.] [Footnote 5: This was the Engineer officer who had such a miraculous escape when he blew in the Kashmir gate at Delhi, for which act of gallantry he had been promised the Victoria Cross.] [Footnote 6: A few years afterwards she communicated with the civil authorities of the district, and made out such a pitiful story of ill-treatment by her Mahomedan husband, that she was sent to Calcutta, where some ladies were good enough to look after her.] [Footnote 7: Men in charge of the elephants.] [Footnote 8: Turban.] [Footnote 9: Native kettle-drum.] [Footnote 10: Pearl Mosque.] * * * * *.
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