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Forty-one years in India

CHAPTER XXVII
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His throat was cut, and he had a severe wound on the face.

Soon after we met Inglis's brigade, which, in accordance with my instructions, I turned back.

On reaching the Gwalior Contingent camp, we heard that an attempt had been made to recapture it, which had been repulsed by the troops left in charge.
It was dusk by the time we reached the junction of the Kalpi and Grand Trunk roads, and we agreed that this would be a good place for a bivouac, the city being about a mile in front, and Mansfield's column less than two miles to the left.

I marked out the ground, and showed each corps as it came up the position it was to occupy.

When all this was over I was pretty well tired out and ravenously hungry; but food there was none, so I had made up my mind to lie down, famished as I was.


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