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Forty-one years in India

CHAPTER LXI
18/18

80 gallons.
Atta 320 maunds.
Dall 51-1/2 " Ghee 19-1/4 " Salt 8-1/2 " Grain 700 " A.R.BADCOCK, Major, Deputy Commissary-General.
KELAT-I-GHILZAI, _24th August,_ 1880.
[Note *: A maund is equivalent to 80 lbs.] ] [Footnote 4: The effective garrison consisted of 1,000 British soldiers, 3,000 Native soldiers, and fifteen Field guns.] [Footnote 5: One and all bore testimony to the unfailing good behaviour and creditable bearing of the Royal Artillery and the Bombay Sappers and Miners, not only during the investment, but in the very trying time of the retreat from Maiwand.] [Footnote 6: The walls had an average height of 30 feet, and breadth of 15 feet on the north and east fronts.] [Footnote 7: Two Royal Artillery guns, 3rd Bengal Cavalry, and 15th Sikhs.

Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman accompanied the party, and was of great assistance to Brigadier-General Gough.] * * * * *.


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