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EMPLOYMENT IN THE PUNJAUB AS SECOND IN COMMAND OF THE CORPS OF GUIDES, AND ALSO AS ASSISTANT TO THE RESIDENT AT LAHORE--ROAD-MAKING AND SURVEYING--CAMPAIGN OF 1848-9--CAPTURE OF FORTS--BATTLE OF GUJERAT--ANNEXATION OF PUNJAUB--_Oct. 1847-March, 1849_ 103-141
My letters are of necessity short and newsless, for I am scarcely ever able to sit down to write what can be properly called a letter. Anything so mismanaged as the prize proper...
20. CHAPTER II.I wrote you a few hurried lines on the field of battle yesterday, to say that we had beaten the enemy, and driven them back five miles into Delhi. How grateful rest was after su...
21. CHAPTER III.I have been unable to write since we left Delhi, as we have been incessantly marching, and had no means of communicating with any one. Even now I am doubtful whether this will r...
14. CHAPTER IV.I almost forget the many events that have happened since I wrote last. I believe I was "at home" in my snug little cottage in Subathoo, and now I am in a high queer-looking nati...
17. CHAPTER VII.On the 5th of January, 1852, Lieut. Hodson was married, at the Cathedral, Calcutta, to Susan, daughter of Capt. C. Henry, R. N., and widow of John Mitford, Esq., of Exbury, Hant...
16. CHAPTER VI.Your letter from Paris reached me just as I was preparing to start from Umritsur to join Sir Henry Lawrence, and accompany him to Cashmere. I fought against the necessity of lea...
12. CHAPTER II.My brother landed at Calcutta on the 13th of September, 1845, and, with as little delay as possible, proceeded up the country to Agra, where he found a hearty welcome beneath th...
13. CHAPTER III.When I wrote to you last from Sireenuggur, I hoped to have been able to reach this place by way of the hills and Simla; but, before I got to Mussoorie, the early setting in of t...
18. CHAPTER VIII.Up to this time my brother's career in India had been one of almost uninterrupted prosperity. He had attained a position unprecedented for a man of his standing in the service,...
19. CHAPTER I.On the 13th, orders were received at Dugshai, from the Commander-in-Chief, for the 1st Bengal European Fusileers to march without delay to Umbâla, where all the regiments from t...
15. CHAPTER V.You will have heard of the great events of the last month; how on the 26th March, the Punjaub became "forever" a British Province, governed by a Triumvirate; and how the Koh-i-n...
11. CHAPTER I.As a boy, his affectionate disposition and bright and joyous character endeared him greatly to his family, and made him a general favorite with all around him, old and young, ri...
3. CHAPTER IV.EMPLOYMENT IN THE PUNJAUB AS SECOND IN COMMAND OF THE CORPS OF GUIDES, AND ALSO AS ASSISTANT TO THE RESIDENT AT LAHORE--ROAD-MAKING AND SURVEYING--CAMPAIGN OF 1848-9--CAPTURE OF...
7. CHAPTER I.OUTBREAK OF REBELLION--MARCH DOWN TO DELHI FROM DUGSHAI WITH FIRST EUROPEAN BENGAL FUSILEERS--APPOINTMENT TO INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT--RIDE FROM KURNAL TO MEERUT TO OPEN COMMUNIC...
6. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IV.10. CHAPTER V.4. CHAPTER V.5. CHAPTER VI.8. CHAPTER III.1. CHAPTER II.2. CHAPTER III.