Chapter VIII

The Task before Sir Colin Campbell--Disaster at
Arrah--Relief by Major Eyre--Attempted Surprise at
Agra--Short, sharp work--The Mutiny in Oude--Relief of
Lucknow by Sir Colin Campbell--The Fighting--Withdrawal of
the Garrison--Return to Cawnpore--General Windham in
Difficulties--Nana Sahib Defeated--Lucknow again Invested,
and again Relieved--Sikhs and Ghoorkas Fighting on our
side--Death of Captain Hodson--Flying Columns Formed--Our
Loss in following the Mutineers--The Proclamation of
Pardon--Disarming the Native Troops--The Mutineers at
Meean-Meer--Jack Ketch and his Victims--The Outbreak on the
Frontier in 1858--The 7th Royal Fusiliers at
Peshawur--Native Thieves--A Forced March--Encounter with the
Enemy--A Truce--Hostilities Resumed--Bravery of the
Ghoorkas--The Fusiliers Return to Ferozepore--March to
Saugor (Central India)--Ravages of Cholera--Personal Opinion
as to the Natives of India--The Ways, Manners and Customs of
the People--Taking the Census--The Steps taken to Prevent
another Mutiny--Letters from India 301-379

CHAPTER IX.

List of Battles Fought by Land between 1704 and 1882,
showing Date when each was Fought, the Number we Lost, the
supposed Number of the Enemy's Loss, the Regiments that
Fought them, and a few Remarks upon some of them--First
Action of the 15th Hussars--A Gallant Regiment of
Tailors--Singular Description of a Deserter, from _London
Gazette_, 1689--An Account of the Rise of the late Duke of
Wellington--Loss of each Regiment on the Field of
Waterloo--Some of the Duke's Letters about the Field of
Waterloo--Napoleon and the French Press--The British Amazon
380-416

CHAPTER X.

Curious Modes of Recruiting in the "Good Old Days"--Pig
Killing--The Late Duke of Kent--Examples of Brevity--Act of
Self Devotion--The Piper of the 74th Highlanders at
Badajoz--It is better to leave "Well" Alone--Hard up! Hard
up!--Remarkable Wounds and Hairbreadth Escapes--Introduction
of Bayonets into our Army, and the use our people have made
of them since 1672 up to the late go-in in Egypt, at
Tel-el-Kebir--Desperate Defence of Colours--Heroic Stands by
Small Armies against overwhelming Odds--The 52nd
Regiment--Suffolk Regiments--England not a Military Nation?
417-452

CHAPTER XI.

The Great Book--Mysteries of Providence--The Gift of a Bible
and what it led to--The Secrets of the Sacred
Shrine--Opinions of a Native Hindoo Priest. 453-464

CHAPTER XII.

General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B.--Stories of his
Boyhood--Joins the Army--His Military Career--Promotion a
long time in coming--His Merits gradually being
Recognised--Employed in various important affairs--The
Christian Commander and his Regiment of "Saints"--His
Advance to the Capture of Cawnpore--The Horrible Atrocities
that were committed by the Mutineers--The Heavy Losses of
the Avenging Army--The Relief of Lucknow--The Closing
Scene--"See how a Christian can Die"--His Death-bed Advice
to his Son--Reflections--The Lessons to be Learned from the
Life of such a Christian Hero--The Loss to the
Country--Lines "In Memoriam" 465-486

CHAPTER XIII.

Captain Hedley Vicars, a Loving Son and a Faithful Soldier
of the Cross--His Early Life--Joins the Army, and devotes
himself to his chosen profession--His eyes opened to Truths
of the Gospel--Prayerful Conduct--In the Crimea--Killed in a
Night Attack on the Trenches--The Feeling of the Men
composing Light Division--Letters to his Mother--Last
Letter--In Memoriam--Letter to Lord Rayleigh announcing his
Death--Letter from a Brother Officer--Testimony of Private
Soldiers to his worth--The Lessons of his Life 487-501

CHAPTER XIV.

The Black Watch--The British Army, 1889 502-535