He persuaded Campbell to let him follow up the enemy, and was shot dead in a charge.

His men behaved extremely well, and one of them, by name Ganda Sing, saved the life of the late Sir Robert Sandeman, who was a subaltern in the regiment.

The same man, two years later, saved the late Sir Charles Macgregor's life during the China war, and when I was Commander-in-Chief in India I had the pleasure of appointing him to be my Native Aide-de-Camp.

Granda Sing, who has now the rank of Captain and the title of _Sirdar Bahadur_, retired last year with a handsome pension and a small grant of land.] [Footnote 16: A Mahomedan Priest.] [Footnote 17: Now General Cockburn Hood, C.B.] [Footnote 18: Now General Sir Samuel Browne, V.C., G.C.B.This popular and gallant officer, well known to every Native in Upper India as 'S[=a]m Br[=u]n _Sahib_,' and to the officers of the whole of Her Majesty's army as the inventor of the sword-belt universally adopted on service, distinguished himself greatly in the autumn of 1858.

With 230 sabres of his own regiment and 350 Native Infantry, he attacked a party of rebels who had taken up a position at Nuria, a village at the edge of the Terai, about ten miles from Pilibhit.