Indian Mutiny and Beyond by Robert Shebbeare VC (retail) (epub)

Author:Robert Shebbeare VC (retail) (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781781594520
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

Major H.W. Norman, Deputy Adjutant of the Bengal Army, whose A Narrative of the Campaign of the Delhi Army10 was the approved semi-official version of events, gives the following brief account of the actions that took place:

No. 4 column, under Major Reid, advanced from the Subzee Mundee towards Kissengunge, the Cashmere contingent co-operating on its right. The latter, however, was so sharply attacked by the insurgents, who were in great force, that, after losing a great number of men and four guns, they were completely defeated and fell back to camp.

Major Reid’s column met with the most strenuous opposition, greatly increased, no doubt, by the failure of the Cashmere contingent; and the enemy were so numerous and so strongly posted, that after the loss of many men and officers, the Commander, Major Reid, having been carried away severely wounded, Captain Muter, 60th Rifles, the next senior officer, judiciously withdrew the troops to their former posts at Hindoo Rao’s and in the Subzee Mundee. Their retirement was much aided by a fire of shrapnel shells, opened by Lieutenant J.A. Evans from the light guns at the battery called the Crow’s Nest. One party of Guides Infantry, however, were surrounded in an enclosure, and could not get away. Their rescue was eventually effected in a spirited manner by the wing of the Belooch battalion, which, as before stated, had been detached to this quarter.

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