Rulers of India: Viscount Hardinge

I had been ordered by the Commander-in-Chief to dsire a battalion of Guards to advance which battalion was intended to have dislodged a corps of the enemy from a large house and garden on the opposite side of the valley ; and I was pointing out to the General the situation of the battalion when a shot from the enemy's battery carried off his left shoulder and part of the collar bone. [...] In the operations of the year 1811 he was again actively employed and the part he took in the siege of Badajos and the storming of B 2"20 LOP.° HARDINGE the Fort of Picarina in 1812 was mentioned in the official despatches. [...] These opinions he still held when he was Commander-in-Chief during the Crimean War ; but such was the pressure then placed on the resources of the country from the duration of the siege of Sebastopol and other causes that the Government was obliged to reinforce Lord Raglan's army in the trenches with young recruits who perished in large numbers as rapidly as in the Peninsula. [...] the following Memorandum drawn up in 1826 when Sir H. Hardinge was Clerk of the Ordnance is interesting as showing the views he advocated with regard to the want of preparation and organisation which he thought existed at that period :—` The expediency ' he remarks of being prepared at all times for a renewal of war as it regards the security of the country and its colonies and the power of [...] On the death of King Ferdinand the Ministers of England and France saw the necessity of maintaiing the title of Isabella to the throne of Spain ; she became bound to us as we became bound to her and the other Powers by the Quadruple Treaty which was signed in 1834.