Sahib (71 page)

198
Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
pp. 105.

199
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
pp. 106-8.

200
Wolseley,
Story
I, pp. 340-1.

1
Captain H. L. Nevil,
North-West Frontier
(London: 1912), p. 18.

2
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 95.

3
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 70.

4
Moon,
British Conquest,
p. 823.

5
‘Lieutenant John Pester’, in Brander (ed.),
Sword and Pen,
p. 1.

6
‘Lieutenant John Pester’, in Brander (ed.),
Sword and Pen,
pp. 2-3.

7
Lawrence,
India We Ruled,
p. 65.

8
Lt Col. J. Gurwood,
Selections from the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington
(London: 1841), p. 43. Horses are notoriously susceptible to contracting colic, a potentially fatal form of equine indigestion, if their diet is changed. A
garce
was a cubic measure widely used on the Madras coast. By some measures it was equivalent to 10,800 lbs but there were wide local variations.

9
Wolseley,
Story,
I, p. 350.

10
See A. W. Lawrence (ed.),
Captives of Tipu: Survivors’ Narratives
(London: 1929).

11
Captain John Williams,
The Bengal Native Infantry
(London: 1817), pp. 306-7.

12
Russell,
Mutiny Diary,
p. 67.

13
Bancroft,
From Recruit to Staff Sergeant,
p. 54.

14
Letter from an unknown cavalry officer in Antony S. Bennell,
The Maratha War Papers of Arthur Wellesley
(London: 1998), pp. 288-90. The 19th fought prodigiously well, losing their commanding officer, Colonel Patrick Maxwell, who commanded Wellesley’s cavalry that day.

15
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 36.

16
Quoted in Menezes,
Fidelity and Honour,
p. 65.

17
Bromfield (ed.),
Lahore to Lucknow, p.
60.

18
Home,
Service Memoirs,
p. 109.

19
Griffiths,
Narrative,
p. 35.

20
Mackenzie,
Mutiny Memoirs,
pp. 201-2.

21
Bromfield (ed.),
Lahore to Lucknow, p.
127.

22
Jacob,
Diaries, pp.
24-5.

23
Quoted in Menezes,
Fidelity and Honour, p.
16.

24
Benyon,
With Kelly to Chitral,
pp. 38, 43.

25
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 334.

26
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
pp. 69, 137-8.

27
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company, p.
112.

28
Sherer,
Daily Life,
p. 142.

29
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry
I, p. 274.

30
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs, p.
125.

31
Wolseley,
Story
I, p. 371.

32
Anson,
With HM 9th Lancers, p.
226.

33
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs, p.
215.

34
Quoted in Eric Stokes,
The Peasant
Armed: The Indian Rebellion of 1857
(Oxford: 1986), p. 82.

35
General Sir Ian Hamilton,
Listening for the Drums
(London: 1944), pp. 125-6.

36
Yeats-Brown,
Bengal Lancer,
p. 15.

37
Quoted in Holman,
Sikander Sahib,
p. 182.

38
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 183.

39
Stokes,
Peasant Armed,
p. 98.

40
Quoted in C. Grey,
European Adventurers in Northern India
(Lahore: 1929), p. 312.

41
Quoted in H. G. Keene,
Hindustan under the Free Lances
(Shannon: 1972), p. 80.

42
Quoted in Grey,
European Adventurers,
p. 60. O’Brien’s real name may have been Matthew Heaney.

43
Quoted in Grey,
European Adventurers,
p. 71.

44
Quoted in Grey,
European Adventurers,
p. 71.

45
Quoted in Grey,
European Adventurers, p.
129.

46
Quoted in Keene,
Hindustan,
pp. 205-6.

47
Gurwood,
Dispatches,
p. 9.

48
Bennell,
Maratha War Papers,
p. 239.

49
Herbert Compton,
A Particular Account of the European Military Adventurers in Hindustan from 1781 to 1803
(Lahore: 1976), pp. 399-400.

50
Bennell,
Maratha War Papers,
pp. 262-3.

51
Bennell,
Maratha War Papers,
p. 311.

52
Quoted in Grey,
European Adventurers,
p. 354.

53
Quoted in Grey,
European Adventurers,
p. 67.

54
Compton,
European Military Adventurers,
p. 369.

55
Omissi,
Sepoy and Raj,
pp. 234-5.

56
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
II, p. 157.

57
Gurwood,
Dispatches, p.
70.

58
J. Welsh,
Reminiscences from a Journal of Nearly Forty Years Active Service
(London: 1830), I, pp. 194-5.

59
Forrest (ed.),
Chamberlain,
p. 173.

60
Mountain,
Memoirs and Letters, p.
266.

61
James,
Raj, p.
121.

62
Fortescue,
History,
XIII, p. 236.

63
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
II, pp. 128-9.

64
Lunt (ed.),
Sepoy to Subedar, p.
151.

65
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
I, p. 231.

66
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 53.

67
Griffiths,
Narrative,
pp. 77-8.

68
Swinson and Scott (eds),
Water-field,
P. 35.

69
Forbes-Mitchell,
Reminiscences,
pp. 127-8.

70
Wonnacott Papers, British Library Oriental and India Office Collections Mss Eur C376/2.

71
Rait,
Gough,
II, p. 325.

72
Shipp,
Paths of Glory, p.
142.

73
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
I, p. 99.

74
Fortescue,
History,
XII, p. 290.

75
Captain J. Cumming, ‘The Night of Ferozeshah’, in
Army Quarterly,
January 1937 pp. 278-9.

76
Fortescue,
History,
XII, p. 138.

77
Forrest (ed.),
Chamberlain,
pp. 62-3.

78
Lt Col. F. A. Hayden,
Historical Records of the 76th Hindoostan Regiment
(Lichfield: no date), p. 27. The younger Lake was killed at the battle of Rolica in the Peninsula (1808), just six months after his father’s death.

79
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 38. In a ghastly example of a reversal of fortune, this brave man was eventually hanged for murder after shooting his brigadier.

80
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock,
p. 131.

81
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs, p.
246.

82
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
I, p. 198.

83
Wolseley,
Story,
I, pp. 189-200.

84
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock, pp.
434, 450.

85
Low (ed.),
Fifty Years,
p. 282.

86
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 57.

87
Tuker (ed.),
Metcalfe,
pp. 69-70.

88
Griffiths,
Narrative,
pp. 191-2.

89
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
I, pp. 92, 114, 127, 318-19.

90
Shephard,
Coote,
p. 49.

91
Bennell,
Maratha War Papers,
p. 227.

92
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 447.

93
Francis Younghusband,
Indian Frontier Warfare
(London: 1898), p. 4.

94
C. E. Callwell,
Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice
(London: 1903), P. 399.

95
Hewett,
Eyewitnesses,
p. 132.

96
Tuker (ed.),
Metcalfe,
p. 29.

97
Fortescue,
History
XIII p. 279.

98
Shephard,
Coote,
p. 156.

99
Bennell,
Maratha War Papers,
p. 289.

100
Fortescue,
History
XII, p. 465.

101
N. C. Hayes, ‘British Tactics in the Fourth and Fifth Maratha Wars’, in
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research,
No. 77, 1999.

102
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 66.

103
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 57.

104
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
p. 11.

105
Bancroft,
Recruit to Staff Sergeant,
p. 41.

106
Bancroft,
Recruit to Staff Sergeant
p. 51. The incident, suitably dramatised, formed the basis for Kipling’s poem ‘Snarleyow’.

107
Wolseley,
Story,
I, pp. 333, 303.

108
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
I, p. 196.

109
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 48.

110
Hewett,
Eyewitnesses,
p. 113. Laying by ‘line of metal’ meant that Maude aimed straight across the groove in the gun’s breech to the foresight in its swelling muzzle. Because the gun’s breech was broader than its muzzle, this would mean that the piece would be fired with a slight elevation. Trained gunners would know precisely what range ‘line of metal’ would represent for various types of cannon.

111
Quoted in Maj. Gen. B. P. Hughes,
The Bengal Horse Artillery
(London: 1971), p. 69.

112
Gurwood,
Dispatches,
p. 89.

113
Williams,
Bengal Native Infantry
p. 41.

114
The number varied according to the calibre of the gun and the size of the balls: a 6-pounder shell contained twenty-seven to seventy-five; a 9-pounder forty-one to 127; and the 5.5 inch howitzer had 153.

115
Barter,
Siege of Delhi,
p. 14.

116
Tuker (ed.),
Metcalfe,
p. 42.

117
Inglis,
Siege of Lucknow,
p. 82. Lady Inglis’s husband, John, commanded the garrison during the siege.

118
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
P. 35.

119
Bancroft,
From Recruit to Staff Sergeant,
p. 41.

120
For details of the performance of smoothbore artillery see Terence Wise and Richard Hook,
Artillery Equipments of the Napoleonic Wars
(Oxford: 1979).

121
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 101.

122
Barter,
Siege of Delhi,
pp. 16-17.

123
Maj. Smith to Col. Mountain, 5 June 1849, Pennycuick Papers.

124
Ryder in Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
pp. 174-5.

125
‘HM IX Regiment entering Allahabad’, painted by H. Martens and published by Ackerman in 1849.

126
I am grateful to Ian Hook, who looks after the regimental collection in the splendid Chelmsford Museum, for this information.

127
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 215.

128
Barter,
Siege of Delhi,
p. 14.

129
Colonel Edward Vibart,
The Sepoy Mutiny as Seen by a Subaltern
(London: 1898), pp. 138-9.

130
Wolseley,
Story
I, pp. 66-70. A
jingal
was a heavy musket, usually fired from a wall.

131
Wolseley,
Story
I, pp. 309-14.

132
Williams,
Bengal Native Infantry
p. 145. This was the usual method of execution for the crime of regicide in France: on 28 March
1757 Robert François Damiens was executed ‘in circumstances of unbelievable horror’ for attacking Louis XV. On that occasion the executioners had to sever the victim’s muscles before the horses could pull the limbs off. See Ian Davidson,
Voltaire in Exile
(London: 2004), pp. 46-7.

133
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
I, p. 289.

134
Mackenzie,
Mutiny Memoirs,
p. 113.

135
Joseph Lehmann,
Remember You Are An Englishman
(London: 1977), p. 232.

136
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
I, p. 263.

137
Forbes-Mitchell,
Reminiscences,
pp. 289-90.

138
Wilberforce,
Unrecorded Chapter,
pp. 159-60.

139
Le Mesurier,
Kandahar,
p. 57.

140
Bromfield (ed.),
Lahore to Lucknow,
pp. 92.

141
Quoted in Colonel John Sym,
Seaforth Highlanders
(Aldershot: 1962), p. 56.

142
Wolseley,
Story,
I, p. 373.

143
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
pp. 64, 80. Angelo’s was the famous London fencing
salle.

144
Williams,
Bengal Native Infantry,
p. 145.

145
Coghill Papers, National Army Museum.

146
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock,
PP. 293-4.

147
Forbes-Mitchell,
Reminiscences,
PP. 95-6.