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
CHAPTER VI.
THE GREAT MARCH TO DELHI.
The Mutiny of the 55th Native Infantry--Their tragic fate--The Guides
start for Delhi--Daly's diary--A fight by the way--An average of
twenty-seven miles a day--Arrival at Delhi--Every officer killed or
wounded first day--The summer of '57--Return to the Frontier--A warm
welcome--Three hundred and fifty out of six hundred left
behind--Complement of officers four times over killed or wounded 65
CHAPTER VII.
TWENTY YEARS OF MINOR WARS.
With Sir Sidney Cotton against the Hindustani fanatics--Fierce hand to
hand fighting--Dressed to meet their Lord--Against the Waziris in 1860

under Sir Neville Chamberlain--Fierce attack on the Guides'
camp--Lumsden stands the shock--The charge of the five hundred--The
Guides clear the camp with the bayonet--Heavy casualties--Lumsden's
last fight--A story or two--Lord William Beresford--The Crag
picquet--Colonel Dighton Probyn--A boat expedition--Cavignari's
methods--Surprise of Sappri 76
CHAPTER VIII.
THE MASSACRE OF THE GUIDES AT KABUL.
The Cavignari mission--Escort of the Guides--Cordial reception--The
clouds gather--Insubordination of Herati regiments--The storm
bursts--Seventy men against thousands--Defence of the Residency--The
fight begins--Cavignari's bravery and death--Messages to the
Amir--The attempt of Shahzada Taimus--The enemy's guns arrive--The
distant witness--The three officers lead a charge--Kelly's
death--Another charge by Hamilton and Jenkyns--Jenkyns
killed--Hamilton's last charge and heroic death--The last bright
flash--Retribution 97
CHAPTER IX.
THE AFGHAN WAR, 1878-80.
The Guides under Sir Frederick Roberts--Their devotion to him--Under
Sir Sam Browne at Ali-Musjid--Jenkins enlists an enemy--"No riding
school for me"--Battle of Fattehabad--Wigram Battye's
death--Hamilton's fine leading--He wins the V.C.--The Guides' march
to Sherpur--They pass through the investing army--Assaults on the
Takht-i-Shah and Asmai heights--Captain Hammond receives the
V.C.--The final assault of the enemy on Sherpur--Defeat and
pursuit--The second battle of Charasiab--A fine fight--Roberts marches
to Kandahar 117
CHAPTER X.

WAR