[Forty-one years in India by Frederick Sleigh Roberts]@TWC D-Link bookForty-one years in India CHAPTER XXIII 24/27
Sixty-nine of the Native officers and men were also killed or wounded.[22] [Footnote 1: Besides the troops from Delhi, the force consisted of Peel's Naval Brigade, with eight heavy guns and howitzers; Middleton's Field Battery of Royal Artillery (the first that had ever served in India), and two companies of garrison Royal Artillery, under Travers and Longden, equipped with heavy guns and mortars; a company of Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Lennox, V.C.;[*] a few Bengal, and two newly-raised companies of Punjab Sappers; the 93rd Highlanders, Head-Quarters and wing of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and of the 53rd Foot; part of the 82nd Foot, and detachments of the 5th Fusiliers, 64th, 78th, 84th, and 90th Foot, and Madras Fusiliers, regiments which had gone into the Residency with Outram and Havelock. The Infantry was brigaded as follows: Wing 53rd Foot \ 93rd Highlanders | Commanded by Brigadier the Hon. Battalion of detachments | Adrian Hope, 93rd Highlanders. 4th Punjab Infantry / 8th Foot \ Battalion of detachments | Commanded by Brigadier Greathed, 2nd Punjab Infantry / 8th Foot. Wing 23rd Fusiliers \ Commanded by Brigadier D. Two companies 82nd Foot / Russell, 84th Foot.] [*Note: Afterwards General Sir Wilbraham Lennox, V.C., K.C.B.] [Footnote 2: Sir Colin Campbell had served throughout the Punjab Campaign and on the Peshawar frontier.] [Footnote 3: Now the 14th (Sikhs) Bengal Infantry.] [Footnote 4: During one of Watson's many reconnaissances he received a cut on the face from a sabre.
One of the 2nd Punjab Cavalrymen, seeing what had happened, rushed to Probyn, and said: 'Watson _sahib_ has got a wound which is worth a lakh of rupees!'] [Footnote 5: Built by a king of Oudh for the ladies of his harem. It takes its name from the gilt umbrella (Chatta) with which it is adorned.
Now the Lucknow Club.] [Footnote 6: Now General Sir John Ewart, K.C.B.] [Footnote 7: It was a Native saddle, such as Irregular Cavalry used in those days, made of felt without a tree.] [Footnote 8: On one occasion, when I was telling this story to General Sir Samuel Browne, V.C., he said that something similar happened at the battle of Sadulapur on December 2, 1848.
He (Browne) was Adjutant of his regiment (the 46th Native Infantry), which was drawn up in line, with a troop of Horse Artillery, commanded by Major Kinleside, on its right flank.
Seeing that something unusual had occurred, Browne rode up to the troop, and found that one of the men had had his saddle carried away from under him by a small round shot.
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