This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...held on the staff of Lord Gough, with the rank of Major. In 1843, he accompanied the expedition to Gwalior, and was pres.nt at the battle of Maharajpore. In 181.), having in the mean time been promoted to the rank of Lieut. Colonel, he proceeded to the Punjaub, and took part in the tattles of Hoodkhee, Feroxeshah, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...held on the staff of Lord Gough, with the rank of Major. In 1843, he accompanied the expedition to Gwalior, and was pres.nt at the battle of Maharajpore. In 181.), having in the mean time been promoted to the rank of Lieut. Colonel, he proceeded to the Punjaub, and took part in the tattles of Hoodkhee, Feroxeshah, and Sobraon, in which latter engagement three horses were killed under him. During the interval between the Sikh wars, he filled the post of Deputy-Adjutant-General to the European forces at Bombay, Returning to England, by medical advice, in 1849, he proceeded again to India in 1851, and was appointed by Lord Hardinge Quarter-Master General to the British troops in India. In addition to his military services, in the course of which he has passed unharmed through more than twenty engagements, he has contributed to the history of his time memoirs of the Affghan and Ava campaigns. His more recent exploits will be found enumerated above, at p. 60. Heber (Reginald, D.D.) Bishop of Calcutta, Whs a native of Cheshire, and born in 1753. On obtaining his university degree, he proceeded on a tour to the East of Europe, where he collected materials for a histoiical and antiquarian work on Scythia, which was never completed. After some years' labour as a parish clergyman, he was appointed, in 1823, the successor of Dr. JIiJdlcton in the See of Calcutta, and on his arrival, proceeded on a tour of inspection through his diocese. He had scarcely been three years abroad, when his death, an irreparable loss to India, occurred during a journey to Trichinopoli. His narrative of his first tour "through the upper Provinces" is a most able and entertaining work, and of much inteiest even to the present day. Himalaya, (from the Sanscrit Alius, "snow &quo...
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