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Forty-one years in India

CHAPTER XXVII
19/19

He was alive when I left India, and although he resided some distance from the railway he always had himself carried to see me whenever I travelled in his direction.] [Footnote 5: The garrison left at Cawnpore consisted of: Four companies of the 64th Foot, and small detachments of other regiments 450 men.
Sailors 47 men.
-- ------ Total 497 with a hastily organized bullock battery of four field guns, manned partly by Europeans and partly by Sikhs.] [Footnote 6: The force was composed of the 34th Foot, and portions of the 82nd and 88th Foot, and 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade; with four 9-pounders, manned partly by Royal and Bengal gunners and partly by Sikhs; and four 6-pounders, manned by Madras Native gunners.] * * * * *.


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