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Chapter XXVII: Missing Battle Honours

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Sir A. Alison's Committee--General Ewart's Committee--Marlborough's
forgotten victories--Wellington's minor successes--Losses at Douai
--Peninsula, 1705--Gibraltar, 1727--Peninsula, 1762--Belleisle
--Dominica--Manilla--Cape of Good Hope, 1795--Indian Honours
--Pondicherry--Tanjore--Madras troops--An unrewarded Bombay
column--The Indian Mutiny--Punjab Frontier Force--Umbeyla
--Naval honours 433-453

APPENDICES:
I. EGYPT, 1884 454-455
II. DEFENCE OF KIMBERLEY 456-457
III. AMBOOR 458
IV. WAR MEDALS 459-462

INDEX 463-500

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH _Frontispiece_

THE COLOURS OF THE TANGIER REGIMENT,
1684 (NOW THE QUEEN'S ROYAL WEST
SURREY REGIMENT) _To face page_ 2

ROBERT, LORD CLIVE " 50

GENERAL SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY " 124

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON " 192

THE COLOURS OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS
(FORMERLY THE BOMBAY EUROPEANS) " 292

FIELD-MARSHAL COLIN CAMPBELL: LORD CLYDE " 324

THE COLOURS OF THE QUEEN'S ROYAL WEST
SURREY REGIMENT, 1902 (FORMERLY THE
TANGIER REGIMENT) " 424

MAPS

BATTLEFIELDS IN NORTHERN EUROPE " 13

BATTLEFIELDS IN SOUTHERN INDIA " 49

BATTLEFIELDS IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL " 182

BATTLEFIELDS IN NORTHERN INDIA " 406

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