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Memoirs of General Sir Henry Dermot Daly

1905

HENRY DERMOT DALY was born at Kirkee near Poona in the Bombay Presidency on the 25th October 1823 ; the second of the two children of Francis Dermot Daly by his marriage with Mary only child of Captain Hugh McIntosh who served in the Peninsular War in the 16th Light Dragoons (taking part in the battle of Salamanca and in the actions of Llerna Castrajon La Serna Tudela and Torquemado) and [...] SOLDIERS it must rouse the minds of military men to think of the exultation of your regiment as in a dense column it rushed up the breach following the gallant Graham and beheld the hero waving the colours of England on the summit amidst the flashing of Mysorean scimitars the fire the smoke and the loud cheers of the stormers as they fiercely won their bloody footing aloft. [...] On the 22nd March 1848 the GovernoGeneral in Council informed the Secret Committee of the Board of Control that the perfect traquillity which prevails in the Punjab is enabling the Darbar with the assistance of the Resident to promote reforms in the administration of the Lahore State calculated to relieve its finances; and to ameliorate the condition of the people." Sir Henry Lawrence h [...] It will suffice to say that with the help of local levies of the forces of the Nawab of Bahawalpur and of some loyal Darhar troops mostly Muhammadans under the command of General Cortlandt t he not only kept the field against Mulraj until the arrival of the 3ritish troops but that his operations had the successful results which are summed up in the following passage from his own books:— Mulr [...] The first man who ran up the scaling ladder was Balfour of the 32nd--he was hacked fearfully across the face and before we could gain a position on the top—which was to the best of my recollection about 20 feet broad running all round with a square roof of some few feet higher in the centre—many of the brave stormers knew the sleep which knows no waking.
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Pages
422
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144375
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Frontmatter
i-xi H. Daly view
Chapter I Early Life (1823-1848)
1-13 H. Daly view
Chapter II Multan (1848-1849)
14-52 H. Daly view
Chapter III Gujerat and Peshawar
53-61 H. Daly view
Chapter IV Raising of the 1st Punjab Cavalry. (1849-52.)
62-94 H. Daly view
Chapter V Marriage 1852-1856
95-106 H. Daly view
Chapter VI Raising of the Ist Oudh Irregular Cavalry 1856-1857
107-128 H. Daly view
Chapter VII The Guides and Delhi—1857
129-185 H. Daly view
Chapter VIII Lucknow—1858
186-211 H. Daly view
Chapter IX Sir Hope Grant’s Operations in Oudh 1858-I859
212-251 H. Daly view
Chapter X Central India Horse and Gwalior 1861-1869
252-277 H. Daly view
Chapter XI Administration of Central India 1869-1881
278-331 H. Daly view
Chapter XII 1881-1895
332-338 H. Daly view
Appendix
339-374 H. Daly view
Map
i-i H. Daly view
Index
375-388 H. Daly view

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