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Title: Lumsden of the Guides, a sketch of the life of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden, with selections from his correspondence and occasional papers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Lumsden, Peter Stark, (Sir) 1829-1918 Elsmie, George Robert, 1838-1909
Subjects: Lumsden (Sir) Harry Burnett, 1821-1896
Publisher: London J. Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tarted road-making, for which I employed the artillerymen. Therewas an old mound of very hard earth on our line of road, and this wedetermined to blow up. One evening, when the mine was nearly ready, my dinner wasannounced, and Lahorah Sing said, If you will go down to your mealI will send word when the charge is ready, and we will fire the trainwhen you conic back. I turned out again when the work was completed,and it was by this time quite dark. I took up what seemed to me a fairlysafe position, gave the signal, and up went the mine, and simultaneouslysome large substance whizzed past my ear. Sending back men to see ifthey could find anything, they returned with a human thigh-bone ; andthen we realized what, 1 am afraid, the Sikhs must have guessed, that wehad disturbed a disused Muhammadan graveyard. If I had been killed,or even injured, it would have made a glorious story for the faithful—how a young Kngli.-.h officer had insulted a saint, and how this had beenpromptly resented.
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1850 CEASE FIRING 89 youngest of them, being only twenty-two years ofage when he left his regiment, the 49th N.L, andwent with a small force, after the siege of Mooltan,to assist Major Eeynell Taylor in besieging the fort ofLukki in the Bannu district. His arrival at a criticalmoment secured not only the surrender of the fort, butalso the immediate withdrawal of Sirdar MuhammadAzim Khan, the second eldest son of the Amir DostMuhammad Khan of Cabul, from the Bannu territoryto Kurram. In those days officers always had their arms withinreach. One night Lumsden and Pollock found them-selves respectively stalking each other in and around theburj, each having heard the sound of someone movingon the premises. At the door of the hall hung a shortstick with a loaded knob, which Lumsden in his wander-ings in Yusafzai had wielded with much effect as aweapon to be hurled at the many fierce dogs whichrushed upon his horse. The men of the Guides gave thisstick the name of Cease firing, because Lums

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