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Lieutenant-Colonel John Haughton. Commandant of the 36th Sikhs. A Hero of Tirah. A Memoir

1900

Sir Claude MacDonald—the one the j5reux chevalier of his period and the first and foremost of the soldiers educated at Shrewsbury the other the staunch defender oikthe British Legtion at Peking and the most distVuighed of the recent accessions to the Honour-Roll oflippingham —are so to speak the first and last links. [...] And this within a few months of the event !f When we read the life * Pace the Times (August I 8 two) "the Duke's old saying about the Plying-Fields at Eton has " not yet " doni its work." On the contlary they and those of the other schools of England should furnish the primary instruction in that knowledge the cultivation of which the Commander-in-Chiet of the Army enjoined on the occasion o [...] The retention of Peshawar and the disarmament of the native troops there were the work of Herbert Edwardes and Sydney Cotton. [...] He accompanied his regiment in its march from Ftrozpur to Sukkur and shared in the hardships and trials of the advance across' the Kacifichidesert and up the Bolan Pass to Quetta in the winter of 1838-39. [...] The storming column of the three regiments having driven the Baluchis from the hills covering the city followed the retreaing enemy so closely and rapidly that they succeeded in entering the gate of the fortified town before it could be closed.
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Pages
274
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142103
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Frontmatter
i-xiii A.C. Yate view
Introduction
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Chapter-I. The Haughton and Presgrave Families
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Chapter-II. General John Colpoys Haughton
27-61 unknown view
Chapter-III. John Haughton’s Early Days
62-77 unknown view
Chapter-IV. Marriage and After
78-95 unknown view
Chapter-V. Preferment
96-ii unknown view
Chapter-VI The Defence of the Samana Forts
109-iv unknown view
Chapter-VII. Raising the “Pardah” of Tirah
141-149 unknown view
Chapter-VIII. Saran-Sar and Tseri-Kandao
150-168 unknown view
Chapter-IX. The Reconnaissance to Dwatoi
169-179 unknown view
Chapter-X. The March Down the Bara Valley
180-193 unknown view
Chapter-XI. Rest and Death
194-205 unknown view
Chapter-XII. L’envoi
206-220 unknown view
Appendix
221-232 unknown view
Index
233-238 unknown view

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