THE STORY OF THE GUIDES ***
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THE STORY OF THE GUIDES
BY
COL. G.J. YOUNGHUSBAND, C.B.
QUEEN'S OWN CORPS OF GUIDES AUTHOR OF "EIGHTEEN HUNDRED MILES ON A BURMESE TAT" "INDIAN FRONTIER WARFARE," "THE RELIEF OF CHITRAL" "THE PHILIPPINES AND ROUND ABOUT," ETC., ETC.
_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1908
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
_First Edition, March 1908._ _Reprinted April 1908._
DEDICATED
BY SPECIAL PERMISSION
TO
HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII
COLONEL-IN-CHIEF
QUEEN'S OWN CORPS OF GUIDES
The Author's grateful thanks are due to the many past and present officers of the Guides who have helped him in this little book. And especially to General Sir Peter Lumsden and G.R. Elsmie, Esq., authors of _Lumsden of the Guides_; and to the _Memoirs of General Sir Henry Dermot Daly_, written by his son, Major H. Daly.
G.J.Y.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
FIRST STEPS IN WAR.
Sir Henry Lawrence's idea--Stocks and tunics--A new departure--Selection of title--Duties--Harry Lumsden--His methods of training--Baptism of fire--A gallant exploit--Working for the Sikhs--Capture of Babuzai--Death of Duffadar Fatteh Khan--The spring of 1848--Guides unravel a plot--General Khan Singh hanged--The Maharani deported 1
CHAPTER II.
THE FIGHTING AROUND MOOLTAN AND AFTER.
The Insurrection at Mooltan--Murder of Agnew and Anderson--Herbert Edwardes's great achievement--A guide or two with nerves of steel--Siege of Mooltan--Guides capture twelve guns--Ressaldar Fatteh Khan, Khuttuk--His historic charge--With seventy men routs a brigade--Arrival of Bombay troops--Mooltan stormed and taken--Lumsden attacks and annihilates Ganda Singh's force--Battle of Gujrat--Pursuit of the Sikhs--End of Second Sikh War 18
CHAPTER III.
THE CAPTURE OF THE FORT OF GORINDGHAR.
The fort described--Seventy-two guns and a battalion of infantry--British determine to capture it--Rasul Khan and Guides' infantry sent in advance--The strategy of the Subadar--Effects an entry--A day of anxiety--Plans for the night--The sudden onslaught--Capture of the fort--The Union Jack--Rasul Khan's reward 31
CHAPTER IV.
ON THE FRONTIER IN THE 'FIFTIES.
Guides increased--Fatteh Khan, Khuttuk, again--The night attack--Staunchly repulsed--Thirty against two hundred--With Sir Colin Campbell--Nawadand--The enemy attack in force--A cavalry picquet--Lieutenant Hardinge to the front--His splendid charge with twenty men--Hodson of Hodson's Horse--Attack on Bori--Lieutenant Turner's predicament--Gallantry of Dr. Lyell--Hodson's charge--Celebrated spectators 39
CHAPTER V.
THE STORY OF DILAWUR KHAN.
Men accustomed to look after themselves--Shooting for a vacancy in the Guides--No fiddlers and washermen--Rudyard Kipling's _Bhisti_--The brave Juma decorated--Enter Dilawur Khan--A noted outlaw--Lumsden pursues him--They "talk things over"--The outlaw enlists--The goose-step--Dilawur the doctrinarian--The sinking boat--Nearly killed as a Kafir--Becomes a Christian--His last duty--A brave but pathetic end 51
