_Shannon_.] [Footnote 6: Naval Brigade 431 Artillery 1,745 Engineers 865 Cavalry 3,169 Infantry 12,498 Franks's Division 2,880 Nepalese Contingent 9,000 -- ---- 30,588] [Footnote 7: Kaye, in his 'History of the Indian Mutiny,' gives the credit for originating this movement to the Commander-in-Chief himself; but the present Lord Napier of Magdala has letters in his possession which clearly prove that the idea was his father's, and there is a passage in General Porter's 'History of the Royal Engineers,' vol.ii., p.

476, written after he had read Napier's letters to Sir Colin Campbell, which leaves no room for doubt as to my version being the correct one.] [Footnote 8: Outram's division consisted of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 79th Highlanders, 2nd and 3rd battalions of the Rifle Brigade, 1st Bengal Fusiliers, 2nd Punjab Infantry, D'Aguilar's, Remmington's and Mackinnon's troops of Horse Artillery, Gibbon's and Middleton's Field Batteries, and some Heavy guns, 2nd Dragoon Guards, 9th Lancers, 2nd Punjab Cavalry, and Watson's and Sandford's squadrons of the 1st and 5th Punjab Cavalry.] [Footnote 9: The late Lieutenant-General Sir Lothian Nicholson, K.C.B.] [Footnote 10: Now Colonel Thomas Butler, V.C.] [Footnote 11: Now General the Right Hon.

Sir Edward Lugard, G.C.B.] [Footnote 12: It was current in camp, and the story has often been repeated, that Hodson was killed in the act of looting.

This certainly was not the case.

Hodson was sitting with Donald Stewart in the Head-Quarters camp, when the signal-gun announced that the attack on the Begum Kothi was about to take place.