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[151] Sir James, writing to Sir Harry Smith himself on 5th April, said, “I well knew that you only wanted an opportunity to display the great military qualities which I knew you possessed in no common degree.... Most nobly did you perform your part and show how a battle ought to be fought when the troops are commanded by a skilful and brave General who feels himself ‘at home’ in the thickest of the fight, and who knows how to handle them, and how to make use of each arm at the proper time as an auxiliary to the other. The Great Duke in his speech in the House of Lords makes _you_ the Hero of the day.... On the day that thanks were voted to you in Parliament, I invited Barnard, Johnny Kincaid, Rowan, Alex. McDonald, and other of your old friends and comrades to dine with me, and we drank a bumper to your health and that of Lady Smith.”

[152] Compare an extract from the journal of Sir C. Napier (_Life of Sir C. Napier_, iii. p. 398): “[Hardinge’s] army is for discipline the worst I have seen.... There were no picquets or patrols, not even when close to and in sight of the enemy! I am told, however, that Harry Smith’s Division was an honourable exception.” And another from the same journal, dated “July 9” (p. 434): “Harry Smith is a good-hearted, brave fellow, and it gladdens me that he has been rewarded, for he was the only man that acted with any science and skill as a general officer.”

[153] Written, as Sir Edward Holdich tells me, on the battlefield on the night of the battle, and hardly altered afterwards.

[154] W. M. Thackeray, _Book of Snobs_: “Military Snobs.”

[155] Professor Sedgwick wrote similarly, “I do not believe the old Duke ever spoke so much praise in the course of his life before, and all he said was from the heart” (_Life of Sedgwick_, ii. p. 102).

[156] See p. 329.

[157] Sir Robert Peel, in a letter of 21st April, requesting Sir Harry’s acceptance of a copy of his speeches of April 2nd, added, “Sir Robert Peel trusts that the special reference in the Gazette and the Patent for conferring a Baronetcy on Sir Henry Smith to the name of Aliwal (unusual in the case of a Baronetcy) will be acceptable to the feelings of Sir Henry Smith.”

[158] See p. 33. The letter has been printed by Col. Verner in _A British Rifleman_ (George Simmons’ diaries).

[159] See p. 331.

[160] Charles Beckwith, so often mentioned in the first volume, lost a leg at Waterloo. During his time of suffering he underwent a religious conversion. “I was carried away by the love of glory, but a good God said to me, ‘Stop, rascal!’ and He cut off my leg; and now I think I shall be the happier for it.” Through casually opening a book in the Duke of Wellington’s library, he became interested in the Vaudois or Waldensian Protestants, and from 1827 onwards spent a great part of his life among them as a father or apostle. He died in 1862 (see _Dictionary of National Biography_).

[161] Sir Harry passed Gen. Beckwith’s letter on to Col. W. Havelock, the “Young Varmint” of the Light Division (destined to die a soldier’s death at Ramnuggur two years later), and received a characteristic letter of acknowledgment of the “treat” it had given to “yours affectionately, Old Will.”

[162] Lord Malmesbury wrote in his diary for May 8th, “Dined with the Eglintons. General Sir Harry Smith was the great lion of the evening. He is a little old man, very clever-looking. She is a Spanish woman, and has been very handsome” (see _Memoirs of an Ex-minister_).

[163] The Peninsular Medal had just been granted.

[164] For his early friendship with Harry Smith, see p. 5, _n._

[165] On the opposite page is given a facsimile of the handbill issued for the occasion.

[166] Dean Peacock, who presided, referred to the character he had received of Sir Harry from Sir John Herschel, as one not only valiant in the field, but able to conciliate a foe and turn the enemies of the British Empire into its friends.

[167] _Life of Sedgwick_ (Clark and Hughes), vol. ii. p. 124. The _Illustrated London News_ of 10th July, 1847, has an illustration representing Sir Harry passing the house of his birth.

[168] Then commanded by his “third Waterloo brother,” Captain Charles Smith, with whom Sir Harry stayed during his visit.

[169] See p. 158.

[170] During his Whittlesey visit an address was presented to Sir Harry at Thorney, on behalf of the inhabitants of that village.

[171] The Whittlesey troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, under the command of Captain Charles Smith, formed the guard of honour at the Installation.

[172] A letter from the Rev. Canon Charles Evans tells us of an incident which took place _within_ the Senate House. “I was present in the Senate House and stationed close to the platform on which Sir Harry was conversing with the Duke of Wellington, as we were waiting for the arrival of the Queen and Prince Albert, from whom I was to have the honour of receiving the Senior Chancellor’s Medal. The undergraduates were loudly cheering the Duke, when laying his hand on Sir Harry’s shoulder, he said, ‘No, no, this is the man you ought to cheer; here is the hero of the day.’ Sir Harry Smith burst into tears and said, ‘I little thought I should live to hear such kind words as these from my old chief.’ I distinctly heard every word.”

[173] _Life of Sedgwick_, ii. pp. 125-127 and 573.

[174] Told me by General Sir Edward Holdich, who sailed with Sir Harry as his aide-de-camp.

[175] Theal’s _History of South Africa_, iv. p. 308.

[176] Mrs. Ward, _Five Years in Kaffirland_.

[177] After the abandonment of the Province of Queen Adelaide, King William’s Town had been deserted. Mrs. Ward, early in 1847 (p. 147), speaks of “the ruins of what had once promised to be a flourishing town.” “The walls of Sir Harry Smith’s abode are still standing.” Sir Harry now ordered Colonel Mackinnon to cause it to be laid out in squares and streets on both sides the Buffalo. He also established in British Kaffraria a chain of forts, and four military villages called Juanasburg, Woburn, Auckland, and Ely.

[178] Theal, iv. p. 311.

[179] The choice of this date shows Sir Harry’s pleasure in restoring all his old arrangements. It was the date of the great meeting of chiefs in 1836 (see pp. 437, 438, and Appendix V.), and it was then arranged that on every 7th January there should be a similar meeting.

[180] Theal, iv. p. 315.

[181] On his way he stayed from January 12th to 14th at Shiloh, and then selected a site for a town at the junction of the Klipplaats and Ox Kraal Rivers to which he gave the name of his native place, Whittlesea.

[182] Theal, iv. p. 421.

[183] Ibid., iv. p. 422.

[184] Theal, iv. p. 427.

[185] The question was submitted to a Committee of Privy Council, whose report was approved on 13th July, 1850. They gave it as their opinion that to abandon a sovereignty virtually assumed by Sir P. Maitland in 1845 and proclaimed by Sir H. Smith in 1848 would be productive of more evil than good. But they add sentences which read strangely in these changed times. “We cannot pass from this part of the subject without submitting for your Majesty’s consideration our opinion that very serious dangers are inseparable from the recent, and still more from any future, extension of your Majesty’s dominions in Southern Africa. That policy has enlarged, and, if pursued further, may indefinitely enlarge, the demands on the revenue and the military force of this kingdom with a view to objects of no perceptible national importance, and to the hindrance of other objects in which the welfare of the nation at large is deeply involved.... Unless some decisive method can be taken to prevent further advances in the same direction, it will be impossible to assign any limit to the growth of these unprofitable acquisitions, or to the extent and number of the burdensome obligations inseparable from them. In humbly advising that the Orange River Sovereignty should be added to the dominions of your Majesty’s crown, we think ourselves therefore bound to qualify that recommendation by the further advice that all officers, who represent, or who may hereafter represent, your Majesty in Southern Africa, should be interdicted, in terms as explicit as can be employed, and under sanctions as grave as can be devised, from making any addition, whether permanent or provisional, of any territory however small to the existing dominions of your Majesty in the African Continent, and from doing any act, or using any language, conveying, or which could reasonably be construed to convey, any promise or pledge of that nature. And we are further of opinion that the proposed interdict should be published in the most formal manner in your Majesty’s name; that so, in the contingency of any future disregard of it by your Majesty’s officers, your Majesty may be able to overrule any such act, or to disappoint any such promise of theirs, without risking the imputation of any breach of the public faith.”

[186] J. Noble, _South Africa_ (1877), p. 126.

[187] “The Governor—likened to a thunderbolt in presence of an enemy—acted with characteristic promptitude.”—Noble, p. 132.

[188] Called in Sir Harry Smith’s dispatch “Kroom Alem Boh,” by Theal “Kromme-Elleboog.”

[189] “Up to this moment he was confident that no European in South Africa would point a weapon against his person. In this confidence he had dressed himself that morning in blue jacket, white cord trousers, and drab felt hat, the same clothing which he had worn when he met Mr. Pretorius in the emigrant camp on the Tugela seven months before. He was exceedingly anxious to avoid a collision.”—Theal, iv. p. 437.

[190] A picture of the sharp skirmish of Boomplaats (from a drawing by the late Lieut.-Col. Evelyn) appeared in the _Graphic_, 17th Feb., 1900, with some comments by Major-General C. E. Webber.

[191] “It was remarkable how his Excellency came out unhurt, for from the beginning to the end he was in the thickest of the fire.”—Noble, p. 135.

[192] It appeared afterwards that only nine Boers were killed.

[193] In connexion with this, I may quote a story told to my sister, Miss Moore Smith of Durban, by the late Sir Theophilus Shepstone. “Sir Harry always read part of the service on Sunday morning at Grahamstown [? in 1835], and was so particular that all should come that he imposed a fine of half a crown on every absentee. He read extremely well, and was very proud of it. One Sunday a dog came into the room when service was going on, and began to create a disturbance. Sir Harry stood it for a little time, then in the middle of a prayer said suddenly, ‘Take that d——d dog away,’ after which he continued his prayer in the same tone as before.”

[194] The execution of Dreyer as a rebel was long bitterly resented by the Boers.

[195] Here, or near here, on 12th May, 1849, the town of Aliwal North was founded by Mr. Chase, the Civil Commissioner.—Wilmot and Chase, p. 417.

[196] Under Sir Henry Pottinger’s rule the Eastern Province had had an able Lieutenant-Governor in Sir Henry Young, and there was a strong feeling during Sir Harry’s governorship that the interests of the Eastern Province could not be ensured by a government at Cape Town. Sir Harry himself finally gave in to this view, and on 14th June, 1851, recommended “a separate and distinct government for the Eastern Province.”

[197] In May and June, 1849, Sir Harry was seriously ill from a carbuncle on his neck. On 20th June he gave a ball at Government House, which many refused to attend owing to the agitation against the Government. Sir Harry, with soldierly punctiliousness, appeared among his guests for half an hour, but his appearance was so ghastly, and made the more so by his dark green Rifle uniform, that it was said “one might have imagined that he had just stepped out of his coffin.”

[198] Mr. W. A. Newman (_Memoir of J. Montagu_) quotes a reply made by Sir Harry to the Anti-Convict Association on 18th June: “This is the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. For four and forty years have I served my sovereign—I say it with pride—and I would rather that God Almighty should strike me dead than disobey the orders of Her Majesty’s Government and thereby commit an act of open rebellion.”

[199] Chase writes (Wilmot and Chase, p. 458), “Sir Harry, perfect soldier as he was, had an instinctive horror of shedding blood, which was never more strongly developed than when he curbed the military from retaliating the insults offered to Her Majesty and to themselves by the mobs of the western metropolis during the anti-convict _émeute_.” We may remember that he had shown the same spirit during the Radical disturbances at Glasgow (see pp. 326-328, 335).

[200] In connexion, however, with the delays encountered in receiving the new constitution, Lord Grey was much reviled both in the Colony and in England. Sir W. Napier (_Life of C. Napier_, iv. p. 327) quotes the following epigram:—

“This point was long disputed at the Cape,
What was the devil’s colour and his shape.
The Hottentots, of course, declared him white,
The Englishmen pronounced him black as night;
But now they split the difference and say
Beyond all question that Old Nick is Grey.”

[201] On the 20th December, Sutu, Sandilli’s mother, was made chief.

[202] Wilmot and Chase, _Annals of the Cape Colony_ (1869), p. 437.

[203] W. A. Newman’s _Memoir of J. Montagu_, 1855.

[204] A good deal might have been excused in a document issued under such circumstances, but the word “exterminate” was not a happy one, and was frequently seized on afterwards by opponents of Sir Harry in England. How little it represented the writer’s real feeling is shown by a sentence in a letter to his wife of 24th May, 1851: “I hope yet to see all the ringleaders hung, while I would willingly _forgive_ the poor wretches who have been led astray by the wickedness of others.”

[205] Consisting of the 6th, 73rd, 91st, and 45th Regiments.

[206] Dispatch to Lord Grey, 17th March, 1852.

[207] _Cape Town Mail_, April 5th and 8th, 1851.

[208]

“Horse Guards, 7th March, 1851.

“It appears to me that this insurrection of the Caffres is general and quite unjustifiable, sudden, and treacherous.

“In my opinion Sir Henry Smith ought to have the means in Regular Troops and Light Equipments of ordnance to form two bodies of troops, each capable of acting independently in the field, each of which should give countenance and support to the detachments of Boers, Hottentots, and loyal Caffres, by which the rebel and insurgent Caffres should be attacked and driven out of the country.

“The occupation of the numerous posts in the country marked Adelaide in the map was very proper and necessary when the frontier was the Buffalo River, but it would be much better to carry it to the Key and there fix it permanently, and to form a place d’armes or fortified Barrack for Troops somewhere about King William’s Town, between that and Fort Wellington, or possibly a little to the westward near the sources of the river.

“In such place d’armes there might be the means of giving cover to more than the small body which might be required for the permanent garrison.”

[209] Lord Grey.

[210] Wilmot and Chase, p. 458.

[211] Cp. pp. 791 _bot._, 792. The _Cape Town Mail_ (some indication of colonial feeling) protested both on the 25th January and on 5th April against the military execution of rebels.

[212] The _Cape Town Mail_ of 9th Dec. 1851 wrote prophetically, “This abandonment of a really flourishing and promising British colony would be an Imperial calamity; but the full extent of the mischief would not be understood until it became necessary, as in a few years it certainly would be found, to reconquer the territory so dishonourably and foolishly deserted;” and Chase in 1869 speaks of the “abandonment of that splendid country, the Orange River Sovereignty, through a gross ignorance and a disgraceful misstatement of its capabilities, and permitting in its place the formation of the Free State Republic—one of the most imprudent acts ever committed, involving the Colony in entanglements, troubles, and cost, the end and consequence of which cannot be predicted.”

[213] _Correspondence of Gen. Sir G. Cathcart_, p. 358.

[214] Lord John Russell stated that the dispatch had never been seen by the Queen, and Lord Ellenborough, in a kind letter dated “Feb. 7,” says, “What I am told is that Lord Grey recalled you, not without asking the Duke’s opinion, but against it, after he had asked it.”

[215] Sir George Napier, himself an ex-Governor of the Cape, wrote in April, 1852:—“Had the Duke of Wellington ever seen the ‘Cape bush,’ he would not have said what he did about making roads through it; the thing is quite out of the question.... You may rely upon it that Sir Harry Smith would never have delayed one day in making roads had it been feasible.... As for Harry Smith, I am glad to see Lord Grey is abused by everybody for the harsh unjust manner of his recall. In my opinion the great mistake Smith made was in ever giving in to Lord Grey’s folly of withdrawing a single soldier; and when the war did break out, he should have at once acknowledged his error, and boldly demanded reinforcements to the extent of 5000 troops at once. I still hope he may be able to finish the war before his successor arrives, for till lately he had not force to do more than he did.”—_Life of Sir W. Napier_, ii. pp. 310-312.

[216] By the Sand River Convention signed on 17th January, 1852, by the Assistant-Commissioners Major Hogg and Mr. Owen, and subsequently ratified by General Cathcart, the Transvaal emigrant farmers had their independence recognized, and being thus reconciled to us were detached from the Boers within the Orange River Sovereignty, who now had no one to look to but the British Government. The Convention was no doubt politic on the assumption that the Sovereignty was to be resolutely kept. When the Sovereignty was abandoned, it took a different character. But for this Sir Harry Smith was not responsible.

[217] The supersession of the Governor at this crisis was no doubt a main cause of the war’s being protracted, though in a less severe form, for some months longer. See Mr. Brownlee’s report dated “Fort Cox, 4th March, 1852.”

[218] _Correspondence of General Sir George Cathcart_ (1856), p. 36.

[219] _Cape Town Mail_, 20th April, 1852. Sir Harry’s departure from King William’s Town in 1836 was strangely similar. See pp. 458, 459.

[220] See _Cape Town Mail_, April 17th and 20th, 1852.

[221] Wilmot and Chase, pp. 417, 459. With regard to Mr. Chase’s last assertion, it is perhaps worth remarking that Sir Harry Smith reflected the spirit of the Romantic School in his religious feelings as well as in much else.

The weakness which Mr. Chase previously mentions is thus referred to in the _Natal Witness_ (Jan. 1889): “It was a common habit with Sir Harry Smith to threaten to jump down people’s throats,—boots, spurs, and all; and he once on a field of battle sent a message, seasoned with some fearful expletives, to a colonel that if he kept his regiment so much to the front, he’d have him knee-haltered. But the fine old General drew a line at swearing and never allowed of personal abuse.”

[222] _Portsmouth Times_, 5th June, 1852.

[223] Lord Grey fully appreciated Sir Harry’s chivalry. He writes, “On a question of this kind we were not at liberty to consult our private feelings. This was fully understood by Sir Harry Smith himself, of whose most handsome and honourable conduct I cannot too strongly express my sense. He has shown no resentment against us for what we did, but has fairly given us credit for having been guided only by considerations of public duty. I feel individually very deeply indebted to him for the kindness with which he has acted towards me since his return.”—_The Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell’s Administration_ (1853), vol. ii. p. 247. Men will decide according to their dispositions whether such conduct was “lowering” to Sir Harry or not. It was at least part and parcel of his nature.

[224] _Portsmouth Times_, 11th Sept. 1852.

[225] _Life of Sir W. Napier_, vol. ii. p. 327.

[226] Martin’s _Life of the Prince Consort_, vol. iv. p. 37.

[227] Sir Harry felt a strong personal devotion to the Queen, and would speak of her as “the most gracious lady in the whole world.”

[228] Henry Havelock’s elder brother, Will, as before stated, was called in the Peninsula “Young Varmint” for “his keenness and daring in the saddle and in every manly sport.” See account of W. H. by H. H. in Buist’s _Annals of India for 1848_.

[229] See p. 33 _n._ It is characteristic of Sir Harry’s kindness of nature that he now brought home from Lisbon some little presents for the children of his aide-de-camp, Major Payne.

[230] See p. 184 _n._

[231] Cope, p. 451.

[232] Miss Alice E. Smith (daughter of Major Thomas Smith), now Mrs. Lambert, was a great deal with her uncle and aunt from 1852 onwards.

[233] Cp. p. 657.

[234] Sir H. E. Maxwell’s _Life of Wellington_, vol. ii. pp. 361-364.

[235] _I.e._ the war then being waged in Italy.

[236] Tortona was laid waste in 1155 and 1163 by Frederick Barbarossa.

[237] _Glasgow Gazette_, 11th Feb. 1860.

[238] See p. 1 _n._

[239] Called by Lady Smith, “not _quite_, yet like my own Henrique!”

[240] The date should be 1787.

[241] The first twelve names represent the 12 clasps attached to Sir Harry’s Peninsular medal; for Waterloo, Maharajpore, and South Africa (1853) he had separate medals; the remaining three names are those of his clasps for the Sutlej Campaign. He wore, besides, the Grand Cross of the Bath and the Portuguese Order of St. Bento d’Aviz.

[242] See p. 653.

[243] In his last years the gallant old General would say that “he did not care any longer to go to the club and meet _a lot of old fogies whom he didn’t know_.”

[244] She died Jan. 10, 1902.

[245] _Cape Town Mail_, 5th April, 1851.

[246] I visited last year at Ely, Mr. B. Genn, late of the 15th Hussars, who had served under him in India in 1846, and who had fired over his grave. As soon as I had opened the door, a fine engraving of Sir Harry greeted me. It had been bought at a sale. The old veteran spoke of his commander always as the “dear old man.” When I asked him if he thought him a good General, he fired up quickly, “Why, think of the battle of Aliwal! Not a mistake anywhere.”

[247] The following characteristic story has been sent me by Major J. F. Anderson, of Coxwell Lodge, Faringdon: “Sir Harry was very quick-tempered, and on one occasion (during the Kafir War of 1835?), when my father remonstrated with him as to an order he gave, he said, ‘Learn to obey, sir,’ and ordered him into his tent under arrest. In the evening he sent to ask my father to dine with him!”

[248] In this and the following items, the story given above is repeated.

[249] Afterwards married to Charles Smith.

[250] Vicar of St. Mary and St. Andrew, Whittlesey, and cousin to Harry Smith’s mother.

[251] Query, 11th? See preceding letter.

[252] I possess this document only in the form of rough drafts. The document as here printed is therefore to some extent a compilation. It is clear that the Board of Officers were proposing a more stringent treatment of prisoners than that which Harry Smith had adopted and which they maintained was more lenient than was permitted by the Royal Warrant.

[253] Col. W. Johnstone was then living at Cape Town. See p. 58.

[254] “My dearest wife!”

[255] His house at Rondebosch, near Cape Town.

[256] Major William Cox.

[257] See p. 212.

[258] _I.e._ tired of doing nothing.

[259] See p. 737.

[260] See p. 100.

[261] “Knife.”

[262] _I.e._ soldiers of the Rifle Brigade.

[263] _I.e._ brown, buckskin trousers (Munro, _Records of Service_, i. 205).

[264] “A little oil and a clove of garlic.”

[265] Alexander has a picture of this scene, with others of the war, drawn by Major Michell, Surveyor-General.

[266] “Do you remember, poor child?”

[267] See p. 168.

[268] “Nonsense.”

[269] See p. 476, _sup._

[270] Hugh Smith, son of Harry Smith’s “Waterloo brother,” Thomas.

[271] Harry Smith, son of the “third Waterloo brother,” Charles.

[272] See pp. 673, 674.

[273] Edward Law, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice of England.

[274] His youngest sister, Miss Anna Maria Smith.

[275] The Peninsular medal was granted in 1847.

[276] “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”

[277] I am not aware what use, if any, Sir Harry made of these “memoranda.”

INDEX.

A

Aboyne, Lord, 576

Achmuty, Col., 177, 710

Adalbert, Prince, of Prussia, 663

Adams, G. G., A.R.A., 684

Adour R., 166, 171

Afghanistan, war in, criticized, 472-479, 492, 493, 766-769

Africa, South, 359-468, 582-651, 715-765, 782-793

Agra, 483, 492, 769

Agueda R., 24, 48, 51, 56, 89;
French attacked at, 28, 29

Ahsin R., 486, 490

Aire, 170

Akalies, 499

Alameda, 24, 30, 89

Alava, Gen., 305;
his story of Wellington after Waterloo, 291

Albany, district of, 453, 454, 634

Albert, Prince, 562, 577, 655, 663, 664

Albert, district of, 587

Albuera, battle of, 50, 66, 278

Alcala, 79, 80, 92

Aldea de Ponte, 52

Alemtejo, the, 15, 47-50, 54

Alexander, Lieut.-Col. (R.H.A.), 541, 542

Algeo, Col., 132;
death of, 133

Algeria, 655

Algoa Bay, 369, 379, 605

Aliwal, battle of, 33 _n._, 535-549, 552, 554-556, 558-563, 568, 780, 781;
Aliwal dispatch, 536-543, 556, 557;
anniversaries of, 592, 593

“Aliwal,” horse, 551, 576, 657, 664, 771;
shot by Sir H. Smith, 673, 674

Aliwal North, 607 _n._, 651

Allahabad, 480

Allen, Col. (Guards), 67

Alligators, 253, 254

Almaraz, 19, 321

Almeida, 24, 30, 34, 47;
escape of French garrison from, 48

Alston, Major R. D. (Glasgow), 328 _n._

Alten, Gen., 79, 87, 100, 122, 142, 143, 147, 148 _n._, 163

Amatola Mountains, 619-645 (_passim_), 751

Amava, the, 745

American War, 191-254

Andrews (secretary), 727

Angelo, Major, 541

Anglesey, Marquis of, 655

Annapolis, 203, 204

Anta (Kafir chief), 619

Antelope-shooting at the Cape, 365, 366

Antonio (a boy goatherd), 116, 129, 130

Antree Pass, 485

Ants, sign of good luck, 721

Antwerp, 281, 283

Apsley House, 356

Arapiles, the, 84

Aravaca, 82

Arbonne, 152, 155

Arcangues, Château d’, 152, 154

Arganda, 79, 80

Arms of Sir Harry Smith, 771, 772, 564-566

Armstrong (murdered by Kafirs Ap. 1835), 750

Armstrong, Capt. (C.M.R.), 376

Armstrong, Fort, 623

Arragon R., crossing of, 109, 110

Arrhune. _See_ Rhune

Arronchas, 49

Arruda, 35, 36

Arzobispo, bridge of, 19

Asche (Asch), 266

Assuduco (Governor of the Havannah), 255

Atlantic, the, fishes and birds of, 692-695;
voyages across, 4, 12, 13, 193, 208, 226-228, 257, 338, 339, 344,
352-354, 691-696

Auchmuty, Gen. Sir Samuel, 4, 691

Auckland (South Africa), 588 _n._, 619

Auckland, Lord, 471-474

Autobiography, Sir H. Smith’s, 752, 775-777

Avitabile, Gen. (Sikh Army), 512-514, 534, 537, 540-542, 779

Ayliff, Mr. (missionary), 738

B

Badajos, 16, 20, 23, 75 _n._;
the storming of, 31, 62-73, 75, 275, 389 _n._

Bagot (Hottentot Battalion), 728

Bailie, Capt. John, 411, 414

Bailie, Lieut. C., 412, 420-422, 425

Baillie, Lieut. R. (72nd), 364, 365

Balfour, Lieut. Arthur L. (called “Paddy”), (72nd), 395, 398, 399, 406,
427, 720, 724, 727, 729, 735, 745, 750, 751, 758, 759

Baltimore, 203, 204, 206;
question of an attack on, 206, 207;
attack repulsed, 221

Balvaird, Major (95th), 299

Bandits, Battle of the, 21-23

Baranhara, 526-529

Barba del Puerco, 24

Barnard, Gen. Sir Andrew, 73, 112, 126, 127, 132, 163, 165-168, 174,
175, 333, 495, 556 _n._, 563, 569, 572, 686, 688, 715;
at Badajos, 63-66;
at Nivelle, 146, 147;
commandant of Cambray, 308, 314, 315;
letter to, 564;
death, 661

Barnard’s Vale and Ford, 757

Barnes, Sir E., 115, 302

Barney, Commodore (U.S.A.), 197

Barossa, 125, 480

Barr, Lieut.-Col., 491, 503 _n._

Barrouilhet, 154 _n._

Barwell, Major (9th), 515

Bashee R., 401, 402, 408-412

Basutos. _See_ Moshesh

Bath, 207, 217

Bath, Marquis of, 666, 667

Bathurst, 634

Bathurst, Lord, 207, 213-216;
dispatches to, 214 _n._, 247 _n._

Bavay, 287, 288

Baxter (? David), Staff Surgeon, 201

Baynes, Lieut. T. (39th), 254

Bayonne, 152, 153, 161

Beaufort, Duke of, 571

Beaufort, Fort, 376, 622, 634, 641, 727

Beaufort West, 598

Beauport (Sussex), 320

Beckwith, Lieut. Robert (95th), 20

Beckwith, Major (R.B.), 602

Beckwith, Major-Gen. Charles, 67, 87, 147, 148, 153, 172, 173, 297, 567,
662, 674, 675, 685, 688;
letters from, 568, 656, 659, 661, 665, 666, 667, 669

Beckwith, Mrs. Charles, 665, 666

Beckwith, Mrs. (sen.), 324, 325

Beckwith, Sir George, 324

Beckwith, Sir T. Sydney, 14, 15, 24, 31, 39, 40, 45, 49, 324, 715;
anecdotes of, 17, 35, 36, 38, 44, 46;
invalided by ague, 63

Belem, 33 _n._, 34, 48, 667

Belfast, 336-339

Bell, Gen. Sir John, 52, 53, 89, 225, 253, 350, 710, 360, 361, 455,
569, 572, 655, 665, 666, 674, 681, 685, 688, 742, 745;
anecdotes of, 177, 685

Bell, Lady Catherine, 360, 361, 655

Bere, Capt., 541

Beresford, Lieut. H. T. (71st), 743, 753

Beresford, Marshal, 96 _n._, 166, 175

Bergen Op Zoom, 128

Bermuda, island of, 194, 195

Berri, the Duke de, stag-hunting, 295-297

Bester, Paul, 598

Bethany, S. Africa, 604

Bethune (Mayor of Cambray), 315

Beyring, Col., 155

Bhoondree, 541, 542

Biaritz, 154

Bidassoa R., 112, 131;
fight at, 117-125

Biddulph, Lieut. (Hottentot Battalion), 420, 421

Biddulph, Mr. (Resident at Winburg), 597

Bingham, Lieut. R. C. (75th), 737

Birmingham, 322, 663

Bladensburg, 204;
battle of, 198-201;
night-march from, 201, 202

Blakeney (? Lieut.-Col. Edw.), 242

Blantyre, Lord, 330

Blinkwater Post, 641

Blinkwater stream, 630, 787, 790

Bloemfontein, 584, 591, 597, 604, 605, 606, 640, 644

Blucher, Marshal, 294;
accident to, 293

Boar-hunting, 21, 82

Boers, of Cape Colony, 373, 376, 383, 461, 462, 621, 626, 720, 723, 726,
727, 728, 729, 730, 732, 733, 750, 792;
migrations of, 463, 464, 583, 584, 592, 593;
across the Orange, 584, 590;
rebellion of, 596-608;
across the Vaal, 584, 644;
in Natal, 793.
_See_ Orange River Sovereignty

Boileau, Capt., 543

Boku (brother of Hintza), 396, 397, 585, 743, 746, 747, 749, 750, 753

Bolton, Brig. S., 505

Bombay, 501

Boomplaats, battle of, 601-604

Booth, Capt. W. (15th Hussars), 171

Bordeaux, 186, 216

Botha’s Drift, 598, 599

Bourlon, near Cambray, 300

Bowker, Joseph, army surgeon, 78

Bowker, Mr. T., 576

Bowyer, Fort, capture of, 248-251

Brabourne Lees, 3, 158

Bradford, Major, 538

Bradford, Major-Gen. Sir T., 327, 328, 330, 332

“Brass Mare,” the, 264, 302;
carries Juana Smith to Antwerp and back, 281-288

Bright, John, M.P., 661

Bringhurst, Major J. D., 709

Briton, Mr. (Harwich), 263, 264

Broadfoot, Major G., 477 _n._, 512

Brooke, Col. Francis, 53, 195, 199

Brotherwood, Serg., 62

Brown (a spy), 198;
saved by a ruse, 205, 215

Brown, Col. (85th), 199

Brownlee, Chas. (Civil Commissioner), 617, 645 _n._

Brownlee, Rev. J., 751

Brownrigg, David (surgeon), 39

Bruges, 264, 265

Bruintjes (cook), 726, 728, 740

Brunswick, Ferdinand, Prince of, 324

Brussels, 260, 266, 267, 281, 286, 287, 297

Buccleugh, Duke of, 331

Budhowal, Budowal, 526-538, 543;
encounter with Sikhs at, 529-532, 543-546, 556, 559, 561, 568

Buenos Ayres, 6;
disastrous attack on, 8-10, 237, 246, 247, 699

Buenos Ayres, near Lisbon, 33, 39

Buffalo, Poorts of the, 388, 389, 458, 625

Buffalo R., 418, 618, 731, 751, 754, 756, 757, 789

Buffeljaghts R., 371

Buller, Col. (R.B.), 602-604, 606

Bundelcund, 479, 493

Burgess, Rev. G., 1 _n._, 569

Burgher force, 376, 398, 720, 723, 732, 750

Burghersh, Lord, 666

Burgos, 79, 83, 94;
blown up by the French, 96

Burmese war expected, 472

Busseean, 504, 526, 527, 558

Butler, Col. (American), story of, 240-242

Butterworth, 391, 734, 737, 738

C

Cabool, 475, 476 _n._, 479, 766

Cadoux, Capt. D. (95th), killed at Vera, 121-125

Calais, 317

Calcavellos, 16, 17, 699

Calcutta, 355, 470, 480-482

Calder the Leper (a spy), 198, 205, 215

Caledon, 370

Calvert Fontein, 603

Cambray, army of occupation quartered round, 298-316;
last review, 310;
Harry Smith appointed Town Major of, 300;
coursing, 302-304

Cambridge, 577-579, 654, 700

Cambridge, Duke of, 655, 662, 669

Cambridgeshire Yeomanry Cavalry, 2 _n._, 576, 578

Cameron, Capt. Alister (95th), 31, 64

Campbell, Capt., 376

Campo Mayor, 20-22

Canary Islands, 692

Candahar, 476 _n._

Cape Castle, 54, 361, 362

Cape Colony, 359-468, 715-765;
Sir Harry’s Governorship, 582-651, 782-793;
horse-breeding and sport, 363-368;
fixing of frontier, 627 _n._, 732, 746, 753, 754;
annexations to, 629;
question of Representative Assembly, 609, 610, 613-616, 632, 650;
Convict question, 611-613, 630, 631, 650, 687

Cape Mounted Rifles, 374, 396, 398, 598, 601, 620, 719, 720, 723, 756;
defection in, 623-625, 635

Cape Town, 646;
Sir Harry Smith there, 360-372, 462-468, 585-586, 596 (cp. 591)-598,
608-617, 618, 647-649;
his treatment of military prisoners at, 715-717

Carbonada, 724, 725

Cargill, Lieut. (52nd), story of, 136

Carlton House, 213

Carpio, 47

Casal Nova, fight at, 43

Castello Branco, 50

Castello de Vidi, 20

Castel Sarrasin, 181, 183, 185

Castilleur (Casteleur), Château of, 152, 154, 162

Castlereagh, Lord, 301

Cathcart, Gen. the Hon. George, 637, 642, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649,
783

Caucasus, 655

Cawnpore, 483, 497

Chalmers, Dr., 360

Charlie’s Hope (Col. H. Smith’s house at Rondebosch), 720, 723, 724,
725, 741

Charras, the, marriage and other customs of, 90, 91

Chesapeake, the, 194, 196, 208, 209

Chopo, 744

Chounda, 486

Christie, Capt., 518

Chumbul R., 483-485

Chumie R., 722

Churchill, Lieut.-Col. C. H. (31st), 675

Ciudad Rodrigo, 24, 39, 47, 48, 50-52, 61, 82-84, 89;
besieged by French, 28;
captured by them, 30;
stormed by the English, 55-68

Civilizing of Kafirs, 430-451, 580, 589, 616, 626, 631, 648, 739, 760, 765

Celerico, 30

Clarksbury, 750

Clausel, Marshal, 109, 111

Clavering, Gen. H. F., 193

Clerk, G. (Pol. Agent), 474, 478

Clichy, 292

Clyde, the, 336

Coa River, 48;
battle of the, 2 _n._, 30, 31, 65, 184

Cochrane, Adm. Sir A., 194, 197, 206

Cochrane, Lieut. T. (95th), 99

Cockburn, Adm., 197, 200

Codrington, Adm., 197, 238

Coghlan, Col. (61st), his funeral at Toulouse, 180

Colborne, Col. John. _See_ Seaton, Lord

Colchester, 14

Cole, Gen. Sir Lowry, 52-54, 66, 78, 131, 133, 134, 292;
Governorship of the Cape, 360, 362, 368, 717

Cole, Lady Frances, 361, 368

Colesberg, 597, 599

Colonia del Sacramento, 6-8

Colville, Sir Charles, 66, 276

Conception, Fort, blown up, 30

Condesia [Condeixa], 43

Considine (? Lieut. Jas., 13th Light Dragoons), 21

Constantine, Grand Duke of Russia, 310

Convalescent hospitals, 347

Convict question. _See_ Cape Colony

Cooper, Major, 253

Cope’s _History of the Rifle Brigade_, 7 _n._, 123 _n._, 146 _n._,
251 _n._

“Copenhagen” (Wellington’s horse), 270

Coruña, battle of, 2 _n._, 16, 17, 259;
retreat to, 84, 159

Coursing, in the Peninsula, 20, 38, 39, 55, 61-63, 89, 92;
at Cambray, 301-304;
in Cape Colony, 366

Coutts, Miss A. (Baroness Burdett-Coutts), 632

Cowley, Lord, 660

Cox, Maj. W. (called “Jem”) (75th), 379, 380, 384, 386, 425-427, 718,
722, 723, 731, 747, 751, 755

Cox, Fort, 425, 427, 428, 429, 619, 621, 623, 790;
Sir H. Smith shut up in, 620

Craufurd, Col., 284

Craufurd, Gen. Robert, 8, 9, 22, 24, 25, 30, 35, 50, 52, 56, 98, 177, 229;
organizes the “Light Division,” 18;
criticism of, 28, 29, 31;
popularity and unpopularity of, 49;
anecdote of, 51

Crimean War, 656, 658-664

Cromer, 703

Cunningham, Capt. J. D., 535

Cureton, Brig. C. R., 521, 522, 525, 526, 537, 540

Curtis, Mrs., 496

Cuyler, Col. J. G., 373, 374

D

Dada Khasgee Wala, 484, 485

Dâk, a journey by, 480, 770

Dalhousie, Lord, 97, 98, 340, 363, 367, 370

Dalkeith, George IV.’s stay at, 331, 332

Darling, Major-Gen. R., 183

Dauphine, Isle, 251

Dawson, Capt. (52nd), 86

Debe Flats, 729, 730

Debe Nek, 620

Deedes, Mr., 319

De Lancey, Col. Sir William Howe, 266

Deleytosa, 19

Delhi, 497, 502, 558

De Litte, 37

De Montmorency, Lieut. R. E. (50th), 513

Denain, battle of, 306

Derby, Lord, 672. _See_ Stanley, Lord

D’Este, Augustus Frederick, 226, 242

De Tabley, Lord, 671

Devonport, 656-659

Dholpore, 483, 485

Dhuleep Singh (boy-Maharaja of Lahore), 500

Dhurmcote (Durrumkote), 523-526, 534, 535, 558

Dhyan Singh, 500

Dick, Capt. (R. N.), 191

Dickson, Sir A., 239

Digby, Lieut. H. Robert (52nd), 169, 184, 189

Dingaan, 738

Divisions. _See_ Peninsular Army

Doby Hill. _See_ Dough Boy Hill

Donkin, Sir Rufane, 20

Dos Casas, 30

Doubloons, story of, 80-84

Dough Boy Hill, Doby Hill, 19, 321

Douglas, Lord, 330

Douglas, Sir Howard, 340

Douro R., 24, 151;
crossed by Wellington’s army, 94

Dover, 18, 318

Downie, Gen., 150

Downpatrick, 337

Doyle, Capt. John (72nd), 729

Drake, Capt. T. (95th), 97, 98

Drake, Mr. (Havana), 255

Dreams, and their fulfilment, 156, 157, 299, 300

Dreyer (shot as a rebel), 604, 605

Dreyer, Field Commandant, 726, 727

Drummond, Maj.-Gen., 54;
stories of, 45, 50

Duck-shooting, 89

Duffy, Capt. (43rd), 57

Durban, 226. _See_ Port Natal

D’Urban, Sir B., 630, 688;
Governor of the Cape, 368-463;
recall, 583;
commands in the Kafir War of 1835, 369-429, 720-758;
General Orders of, 380, 382, 416, 419, 424;
annexation of new province, 753;
dispatches to, 454, 455;
memorandum to, 715;
characterized, 721, 723, 729, 731, 733-735, 740, 751, 757

Durrumkote. _See_ Dhurmcote

Dushani, 434, 449

Dutch. _See_ Boers

Dutton, Lieut. T. (71st) (called “Kittie”), Mil. Sec. to Sir B. D’Urban,
723, 725, 730

Dyneley, Lieut., 602

E

East India Company, 562

Eaton (16th Lancers), 548 _n._

Eaton, Lieut. (95th), 15

Echallar, 115

Edinburgh, 324, 333, 654;
George IV.’s visit to, 331-333

Eeles, Capt. Charles, 34, 89, 758;
goes coursing, 62, 63;
killed at Waterloo, 287

Eeles, Lieut. W. (95th), 15

El Bodon, 51, 52

Elcho, Lord, 330

Elder, Capt. (95th), 28

Elio, Major-Gen., 8 _n._, 79, 699

Ellenborough, Earl of, 642 _n._;
Gov.-Gen. of India, 476, 484, 485, 487 _n._, 493, 501, 766-769, 776;
his administration, 772-775

Elley, Gen. Sir John, 183;
story of, 318

Elphinstone, Lord, 470

Elphinstone, Major-Gen. W. Keith, 473, 474, 478

Elvas, 61, 73

Ely (Cambs), 683;
Sir Harry Smith’s reception at, 574-576

Ely (South Africa), 588

England, natural facilities for defence against invasion, 319, 320

England, Gen., 478

England, Lieut.-Col. Richard (75th), 723

Eno (Kosa chief), 379, 762

Epinay, near Brussels, 266

Erskine, Sir W., 45, 47

Espeja, 47

Estremadura, 48, 61, 79

Evans, Gen. Sir De Lacy, 93, 195, 201, 206, 329, 561, 572, 655

Exejo, 28

Eyre, Col. (73rd), 634, 641, 789

F

Fairbairn, Mr. J., 614

Fakoo (Pondo chief), 436, 635, 736

Fall, Capt. T. (20th), 193, 204, 211, 222

Fane, Capt. T., 113, 115, 126, 127, 141, 154;
at “La Petite Rhune,” 145;
brings news of Harry Smith’s promotion, 293

Fequenas, 24

Ferozepore, 502, 503, 508, 509, 511, 517, 518, 520, 524, 548, 551, 558,
768

Ferozeshah, Ferozeshuhur, 503, 508;
battles of, 509-520, 550, 556, 779, 780

Fimare, heights of, 310

Fingoes, 391, 396, 398, 411, 416, 417, 423, 424, 638, 734, 738, 739, 741,
742, 746, 749

Firing uphill and down, 134

Fish R., 380, 383, 582

Fish River bush, forays into, 383-387, 635, 636, 719, 722

Fishbourne, Capt. (R.N.), 789

Fitzwilliam, Earl, 576

Fleming, Adm., 336, 345, 349, 350, 351

Fleurus, 266

Florida, Gulf of, 257

Flying-fish, 692-695

Ford, W. M. (Surgeon 72nd), 727, 781

Fordyce, Lieut.-Col. (74th), 638, 640, 782, 787, 790

Forster, Major, 538

Fortifications, 676-678

Four-in-hand driving, 489, 766

Fox-hunting:
in the Peninsula, 92;
at Cambray, 297, 298, 301, 710;
in England, 318, 319;
in Cape Colony, 363, 364

Foz de Aronce, Foz D’Aruz, 273

France, after the war, 181;
occupation of, 297-316

Frederick William, Prince, of Prussia, 664

Freer (Lieut. W. or Lieut. E.) (43rd), 65

Freixadas, 43

Fremantle, Lieut.-Col. F. (2nd Ft. Guards), 291, 307

French and English officers, courtesy between, 140, 141, 155, 156

French citizens and English officers, courtesy between (after Waterloo),
292, 312-315

French pillaging, 102, 103, 116

French prisoner’s return home, 189, 190

French stag-hunting, 295-297

Freneda, 92

Fuentes D’Oñoro, 89-92;
battle of, 49

Fuller’s Hoek, 641

Futteyghur, 523, 524

G

Gaika (Kafir chief), 427, 432, 434, 445, 449, 761

Gaikas, 626, 630

Gallegos, 28, 47

Galston New Mills, night march to, 328

Ganya (a Kafir councillor), 432, 435, 443-446, 457, 459

Garden, Col., 486

Gardner, Major T. C. (95th), 4, 7, 691

Garonne R., 175;
voyage down the, 184, 186

Garvock, Col., 598, 656, 683, 793

Gave de Pau, 162

Gave d’Oleron, 147

Gazela (Kafir chief), 444, 446, 447, 458

Gée, 170-172

Genanendal, 721

Genappe, 269, 270

Genn, Mr. B. (15th Hussars), 687

George (Cape Colony), 371, 372

George IV., 743;
as Prince Regent, 206, 213-216;
his visit to Edinburgh, 331-333

Ghent, 262, 264;
English army at, 265, 266

Gibbs, Gen., 227, 232, 235;
death of, 237

Gibbs, Major-Gen. Sir E., 565

Gilbert, Major-Gen. Sir W. R., at Moodkee, 504, 505;
at Ferozeshah, 511-513, 519 _n._

Gilmour, Major-Gen. Sir D. L., 14;
his mud hut, 141, 142;
death of, 567

Glasgow, 322-336, 654;
disturbances at, 322-329;
Volunteer Sharpshooters, 328, 329, 678, 679;
recognition of H. Smith’s services, 335;
testimonial after Aliwal, 579

Glasgow, Lord, 330, 336

Glenelg, Lord:
joins in the outcry on death of Hintza, 417, 458;
exonerates Harry Smith, 454, 455, 462;
reverses D’Urban’s settlement of 1835, 452, 453, 582, 583;
disastrous effects of this policy, 453, 454, 463, 464, 583, 584, 596,
619

Goat-herds, organization of, 129, 130

Godby, Col. (Brigadier), 526-533, 545, 558;
at Aliwal, 537-540

Gomm, Sir W., 46, 292;
extract from letter, 44 _n._

Gonoube Hill, 756

Gonoube R., 731

Goolab Singh, 500

Goongrana, Fort, 543

Gore, Hon. Charles (43rd), 111, 287

Gosport, march to, 319, 320;
Harry Smith’s stay in, 320-322

Gottenburgh, English fleet at, 15, 263, 749

Gough, Sir Hugh (afterwards Lord Gough):
Commander-in-Chief in India, 480-482, 770, 775, 777;
Gwalior campaign, 482-488, 490, 494, 770, 771;
Sutlej campaign, 504-511, 517-527, 534, 537, 780;
after Aliwal, 535, 547-549;
Sobraon, 561, 562

Gough, Lady (at Maharajpore), 496

Gough, Miss (at Maharajpore), 496

Govind Gooroo, 498

Graaf Reinet, 376, 379, 607

Grahamstown, 418, 422, 423, 429, 431, 448, 598, 605 _n._, 607, 719, 722,
749, 759;
Harry Smith’s ride to, 369-375, 380;
panic at, 372, 375, 720;
defence of, 375-378, 380, 381, 718, 723, 724, 728;
after the war, 461;
receives Sir Harry as Governor, 586, 587;
again in danger (1851), 628, 634, 635;
climate at, 725

Grant, Gen. Sir Lewis, 352

Grant, Major, 517

Green, Mr. (Commissariat), 601

Gregory, Major, 386

Greville, Algernon Frederick, 355

Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke, 216

Grey, Earl, 609-615, 618, 627, 632, 643, 652, 654;
dispatches from, 636, 638, 639;
dispatch recalling Sir H. Smith, 641, 642, 782-786;
Sir H. Smith’s reply to, 787-793

Grey, Major-Gen. Sir John, 483-492, 521, 770

Greyling (a Cape Boer), 626, 727

Guadan Hills, 400

Guadarama Pass, 78, 82

Guadiana R., 16, 62

Guanga R., 400

Guernsey, 655

Guerrilla warfare, 640

Guides, Corps of, 388, 398, 399, 403, 720, 722, 723, 727, 747

Guinaldo, 50-52, 54, 75, 89, 92-94

Gunga rivulet, 731

Gungrana, 527-532

Gurwood, Capt. J. (10th Hussars), conduct at Ciudad Rodrigo, 56, 58

Guznee, 476, 477 _n._

Gwalior, war in, 479-496, 770

H

Haca, La (a pass), 109

Haddon (Cape Colony), 634

Haines, Mr. Commissary, his beagles, 92

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 339, 340, 350;
the garrison’s farewell to Harry Smith, 341-344

Hall, Dr., 598, 602

Hallifax, Capt. R. D. (75th), 722, 727, 737

Hamilton, Capt. (52nd), 199

Hardinge, Sir H. (afterwards Viscount Hardinge);
Peninsula, 62;
Secretary at War, 355;
Governor-General of India, 501, 774-776;
Sikh War, 501, 502;
before Ferozeshah, 508;
Ferozeshah, 511, 520 _n._, 557;
before Aliwal, 523, 780;
after Aliwal, 548, 549, 552, 553, 566;
rewarded, 561, 562;
at home, 655;
Commander-in-Chief, 658, 660

Hardy, Sir T., 197

Hare, Fort, 620, 623, 624, 626

Harrismith, 651

Harry, Fort, 727, 737

Harwich, 14, 262;
Black Bull inn at, 263, 264

Hastings, 685

Havana (the Havannah), 30, 255, 259;
Spanish ladies of, 255;
the harbour, 256, 257

Havelock, Major-Gen. Sir H., 319 _n._;
relations to Harry Smith, 326, 687, 688;
in the Mutiny, 665, 666;
letter from, 477 _n._

Havelock, Col. W., 31, 297, 569 _n._, 665 _n._

Hay, Lord Arthur, 660

Haye Sainte, La, 270, 275

Heera Singh, 500

Hermanus, 622, 630

Hermanus Kraal, 376, 720, 759

Hervey, Col. Sir Felton E., 299, 300;
his greyhounds and Harry Smith’s, 302-304

Hicks, Brig., 510, 540

Higgins (Staff-Surgeon), 39

Hill, Capt., 521

Hill, Lord:
Peninsular War, 37, 79, 82, 176;
a sportsman, 302, 303;
Commander-in-Chief, 465, 717

Himbury, Serg. T. (95th), 657, 658

Hingonah, Camp, 486

Hintza (great chief beyond the Kei), 390-418 (_passim_), 649, 719-755
(_passim_);
evasive conduct, 390, 391, 719;
war against, 391, 735;
rides into camp, 392, 743;
hears bagpipes, 451;
makes peace, 395, 743;
remains as hostage, 395, 744;
death, 397-407, 755;
outcry in England, 417, 418, 453, 454

Hobhouse, Sir J. Cam, 572

Hofer, Andreas, 655

Hogan, John (7th Fusiliers), 253

Hogg, Major, 636, 644

Holdich, Gen. Sir E. A., 551, 598, 659, 660, 780;
extracts from his diary, 598-607

Holdich, Rev. T., 579

Holdich, Mrs. T., 778, 780

Holmes, Lieut., 532, 542

Holmes, Lieut. (R.N.), 191, 194, 195

Hope, Sir J., 154, 155, 330

Horse-racing, 55, 293

Hotham Hill, 757

Hotham, Lord, 560

Hottentots, 376, 418, 447;
enrolled in war of 1835 as 1st and 2nd Provisional Battalions, 383,
386-389, 398, 408, 411-415, 420-422, 425, 464, 465, 723, 739,
741, 745, 758;
Kat River legion, 756;
levies for war of 1851, 621, 622, 628;
defection of (1835), 386;
do. (1851), 622, 623, 628-631, 635, 785, 789, 791.
_See also_ Cape Mounted Rifles, Kat River Settlement

Hougoumont, 268, 309

Howard of Effingham, Lord, 321, 323

Hubon (in Sikh service), 501

Huebra, the fording of the, 84-86

Hull, 659, 660

Hull, Capt. (43rd), 33

Hull, Major (16th Grenadiers), 515

Hume, Major (27th), 271

Hunter, Samuel (Glasgow), 328 _n._, 329

Hurreekee, 522, 534

Hythe, 18

I

India, 465-570, 766

Indian Army, defects of, 494, 495

Indian Mutiny, 665

Inspiration, bright ideas by, 738

Ironmonger, Major (88th), 34, 48

Ituero, 59, 75

J

Jackson, Gen. (U.S.A.), 240

Jamaica, 342-351;
yellow fever in, 344-348;
barrack accommodation in, 345;
tour of inspection of, 348-350;
slaves, 349

Jansi, 115

Japps (sergeant of escort), 397, 406, 725, 726, 728, 732

Jellalabad, 475, 477 _n._

Jervis, Capt., 725, 727

Johnson, Capt. (Whittlesea Yeomanry Cavalry), 2

Johnstone, Col. Wm. (once of 95th), adventure of, 42, 43;
at Ciudad Rodrigo, 58, 179;
at the Cape, 718, 753

Johnstone, Lieut. E. D. (95th), 179

Juanasburg, 588 _n._, 619

Juggernauth, Temple of, 470

Jugraon, 525-535, 538, 544

Jullundur, the, 545, 546

Jummoo, 500

Junot, Marshal, 15

K

Kaffraria, British, 588, 616;
war in, 619-646

Kafir chiefs, meetings of, 437, 438, 457, 458, 587-589, 607, 617, 618,
619, 760-765

Kafirland, 377, 387

Kafirs, 362, 363;
their beauty, 448;
ability, 432;
love of music, 451;
memory, 459, 460;
affection, 456, 458-461;
fine manners, 736;
feudal attachment, 631;
customs, 393, 394, 430-451;
mode of communication, 395, 396, 407, 442, 443;
civilizing of, _see_ Civilizing

Kafir wars:
that of 1835, 369-429, 718-759, 761;
that of 1847, 579-581, 586, 587;
that of 1850, 619-649, 782-793

Kakke (Mpako) R., 411

Kat R., 628

Kat River Settlement, 376;
revolt of, 622-625, 631;
rebels tried, 633, 791, 792

Keane, Gen. Sir John (Lord Keane):
in New Orleans expedition, 228, 235, 237, 245;
Governor of Jamaica, 340, 344-349;
at home, 495

Kei R., 392-415, 418-420, 427, 431, 438, 587, 636, 638, 640, 732-756, 790

Keiskamma R., 387, 582, 587, 619, 624, 725, 762

Kempt, Gen. Sir James, 62, 111, 115, 142-144, 292, 323, 339, 563, 688,
778-781;
at Waterloo, 270-273, 277;
Governor of Nova Scotia, 340, 341;
parting words to Harry Smith, 343;
letters from, 519 _n._, 556;
letters to, 490, 551;
death, 661

Kempt’s Valley, 757

Kent, Duchess of, 323, 571

Kent, Duke of, 310

Kilmarnock, 328

Kincaid, Sir John, 68, 146, 152, 214, 316, 339, 341, 556 _n._, 569,
572, 688;
letters from, 555

King, Capt. (R.N.), 206, 208

Kingston, Jamaica, 344

King William’s Town, founding of, 418, 754, 756;
Harry Smith established at, 420-461, 757;
departure from, 458, 459;
second founding of, 588 _n._;
arrival of Sir Harry Smith as Governor, 587-590;
visit after Boomplaats, 607;
meets Kafir chiefs at, 617, 618;
his headquarters during Kafir War, 618-647, 788, 790;
dramatic departure from, 647

Kitchen, Joe, story of, 167, 168

Knighton, Sir William, 332

Kok, Adam (Griqua captain), 590, 591, 600

Koonap R., 634

Kotze (a horse-breeder), 366

Kreili, Kili (son of Hintza):
in the British camp, 392, 396, 397, 744, 745, 747, 748, 750, 753;
as chief, 429, 438, 457, 756;
meets Sir H. Smith, now Governor, 607;
his ambiguous policy during Kafir War, 1850-1852, 622, 635;
his country invaded by Sir H. Smith, 636, 638, 640, 790

Krom Elbe (Kromme-Elleboog) R., 600

Kruger, Gert, 598, 605

Kuba (Hintza’s councillor), 391, 393, 740, 742

Kurnal, 470

L

Lacy, Capt. T. E. (72nd), 413

Ladwa, Rajah of, 527, 536

Ladysmith, 651

Lahore, 493, 498, 499, 550, 766, 768

Lake, Adm., 340

Lal Singh, 500, 503

Lambert, Gen. Sir John:
commands a brigade at New Orleans, 229-236;
commands in chief, 237;
retirement from New Orleans, 238-246;
makes Smith his Mil. Sec., 243;
takes Fort Bowyer, 248-250;
disembarks army on Ile Dauphine, 251;
at Havana, 255-257;
return to England, 258-259;
appoints Smith his Major of Brigade, 260-262;
Waterloo campaign, 265-273, 288;
wounded, 279;
commands divisions, 292, 298, 300, 355;
at home, 320, 357, 495

Lambert, Mrs. R. (Miss Alice E. Smith), 669, 682

Lane, Lieut.-Col., 538, 543

Larade, 51

Lawrence, Major (U.S.A.), 249-251

Lawrence, Sir H. M., 666

Lawrenson, Major, 537, 541

Layton, Lieut. (95th), 20, 44

Leach, Capt. Jonathan (95th), 20, 30, 41, 89, 569, 572

Lennox, Lord G., 164

Lesaca, 127

Lester (72nd), 756

Letters, the opening of, 777

Le Verrier (astronomer), 578

Leveson-Gower, Major-Gen., criticized, 8, 10, 246

Light Division. _See_ Peninsular Army

Lindé, Field Commandant Swellendam Burghers, 387, 726, 727

Lindsay (? Lieut. J. P. Lindsell), 11th Dragoons, 151, 262

Liniers (Commandant of Buenos Ayres), 10

Lisbon, 15, 18, 33, 39

Littler, Major-Gen., 502, 503, 507;
at Ferozeshah, 507-520

Liverpool, 353-355, 562

“Lochinvar,” Harry Smith’s horse, 287, 303, 311, 312, 319

London, 211-219, 355, 356, 571-574, 669, 674, 677-682, 685, 700, 701, 724;
freedom of the city, 572;
defence of, 589

London Missionary Society, 630

Lonsdale, Kafirland, 377

Loodiana (Loodhiana), 504, 526-538, 544, 546, 547, 558, 559, 766

Louis XVIII. at Ghent, 265;
his entry into Paris, 292, 293

Louvres, 298

Lovett, Capt. G. W. M. (50th), 513

Low, Ensign, 758

Lucknow, relief of, 665

Lugard, Capt. E., 518

Lumley, Capt. (? F. D.), 517

Lumley, Gen. J. R., 517

Lumley, Hon. W., 10, 691

Lumsden, Capt. (R.N.), 339

Lushington (Mil. Sec. to Gen. Jackson, U.S.A.), 245

M

McCaskill, Major-Gen. Sir John, 506

McCulloch, Capt. J. G. (95th), 273

Macdonald, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Alex., 47(?), 556 _n._

Macdougall, Capt. D. (85th), 195, 222, 239, 333

MacDowell, Brig., 537

Mackeson, Major, 535, 538

Mackinnon, Col. G. H., in command at King William’s Town, 588, 616, 617;
engaged in the Kafir War, 621, 622, 625, 628, 633, 635

Mackinnon, Gen., killed, 57

McLeod, Major C., 31;
mortally wounded, 65

McLeod, Major N., 8

Macomo (son of Gaika, half-brother to Sandilli):
in Kafir War, 1835, 392, 425, 747, 748, 755;
making of peace, 426, 427;
after-relations, 434, 437, 444-447, 450, 459, 460, 764;
meeting with Sir H. S. in 1847, 586;
in 1848, 607;
joins in Kafir War of 1850-1853, 635, 636, 641

Madras, 470

Madrid, 78, 79, 81, 255

Maharajpore, battle of, 486-496, 673, 674, 770, 771

Mahrattas, 485-496. _See_ Maharajpore

Maitland, Sir Peregrine, 584

Malcolm, Col., 194, 195

Malcolm, Rear-Adm., 186, 191-193, 195-197, 240, 252, 253, 265, 266

Malines, 282

Maling, Surgeon John (52nd), 164

Malmesbury, Earl of, 572 _n._

Malplaquet, 290

Man, Isle of, governorship, 335

Manchester, 659-675;
“Art Treasures Exhibition,” 664;
address from, 670, 671;
“Peterloo,” 322

Mani (a Kafir messenger), 459, 460

Manningham, Col. Coote (95th), 3 _n._

Maquay (Kafir chief), 395, 748

March (Cambs), 683

March, Lord. _See_ Richmond, Duke of

Maria Josepha, 90

Marialva, 28, 47

Marines, 194

Marlborough, Duke of, 306;
compared with Wellington, 290

Marmont, Marshal, 52, 75

Marsac, 181

Martiago, 51

Massena, Marshal, 30, 37, 41, 48

Medals and clasps of Sir Harry Smith, 684 _n._

Mein, Capt. William (52nd), 129, 130, 725

Melk (a horse-breeder), 366, 367

Mellish (? Col. H. F.), 302

Menzies, Mr. Justice, 331, 585;
letter to, 551, 564

Mersey, the, 354

Metcalfe, Lord, 499

Meyers (outfitter at Portsmouth), 209, 210, 224

Michael, Grand Duke of Russia, 310

Michel, Col. (afterwards Gen. Sir John), 633, 641, 644

Michell, Major, 736 _n._, 740

Military execution, 59, 60

Military prisoners, treatment of, 715-717

Mill, Lieut. (R.A.), 543

Milner Gibson, Mr., M.P., 668

Minni, Sergt., 725, 726

Misreewalla, 517

Missionaries, 435, 447, 450, 763, 765;
rescue of, 379, 380, 750;
degree of success, 448;
bad political influence, 452-454, 630, 633, 791 _bot._

Mississippi, the, 228, 230, 231, 233

Mobile, 248, 250, 251 _n._

Modder R., 584, 590

“Moira” (dog), 733, 745

Molesworth, Sir W., 629-631

Molloy, Lieut. J. (95th), 21, 179

Mondego R., 15, 32, 33

Mons, 288, 290