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Forty-one years in India

CHAPTER XXVII
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The rout was complete.

Finding themselves pressed, the sepoys scattered over the country, throwing away their arms and divesting themselves of their uniform, that they might pass for harmless peasants.

Nineteen guns, some of them of large calibre, were left in our hands.

Our victory was particularly satisfactory in that it was achieved with but slight loss to ourselves, the casualties being 2 officers and 11 men killed, and 9 officers and 76 men wounded.
Hope Grant now desired me to hurry back to Cawnpore before it got too dark, and select the ground for the night's bivouac.

As there was some risk in going alone, Augustus Anson volunteered to accompany me.
We had got about half-way, when we came across the dead body of Lieutenant Salmond, who had been acting Aide-de-camp to my General, and must have got separated from us in the pursuit.


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