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Forty-one years in India

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| |6-8th Royal Artillery--screw guns| 95 | 139 | 6 | |11-9th Royal Artillery | 95 | 139 | 6 | |No.

2 Mountain Battery | -- | 140 | 6 | | | ___ | ___ | ___ | | Total | 190 | 418 | 18 | |TOTAL OF FORCE .-- -------------------------------------------- |British troops 2,562 | |Native " 7,151 | |British officers 273 | |Guns 18 | |Cavalry horses 1,779 | |Artillery mules 450 | Two hundred rounds of ammunition were taken for each Infantry soldier: seventy rounds were carried by each man, thirty rounds were in reserve with the regiment, and a hundred rounds in the Field Park.
Each Mountain battery had: Common shell 264 Double shell 60 Shrapnel shell 144 Star shell 24 Case shot 48 ___ Total 540 rounds.
And thirty rounds per gun in the Field Park.] [Footnote 11: British troops were allowed ponies at the rate of 2 per cent, of strength.

Native troops were allowed ponies at the rate of 2-1/2 per cent.

of strength.

Followers were allowed ponies at the rate of 1-1/2 per cent.


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