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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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s of liberty in writing to give all my dear friends athome an account of my movements, and account for my longcompulsory silence. Passing over all the long time of plots and political shiftson the part of the ex-wazir of Lahore (Lai Sing) and theCashmere rebellion, with its events and consequences, whichI have no doubt you must have long ere this seen chronicledin the Delhi Gazette much more ably than I can hope to do,I shall at once plunge in medias res, and commence my event-ful story from the date of my last communication, which Ibelieve was one I wrote at the foot of a note from Lawrenceto your address. On our arrival at Baramulla,j* on the withdrawal of theSeikh troops from Cashmere, Lawrence thought it would bewell to send a division through the Huzara country, and toldme to accompany it and pick up all the information I couldregarding the state of the country, the feelings of the people,•and, in short, whatever I could find worth knowing. * Post. t Near Srinagar, Cashmere. 28
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CAMPAIGN ON NAINSUKH RIVER 29 After a weeks delay in collecting carriages, I started with3000 Seikhs and six guns carried on elephants under my com-mand, and after a weeks march arrived at a place calledMozufferabad, on the banks of the Kishungunga stream. Ilearnt here, to my surprise, that instead of a quiet marchthrough the country, I should have to fight every inch of theway. I had lots of gun ammunition, but the men had notmore than twenty-five rounds per man, owing to the careless-ness of their officers. We had before us the operation of crossing a river in theface of some 7000 hillmen, in their own mountains, wellarmed, but without guns. You may fancy my feelings onfinding myself—a griff of a lieutenant—suddenly placed inthe position of a general officer, with its accompanying re-sponsibilities, without any officer to consult, and with troopsin whose company I had never been before, except as anenemy. However, I determined to do my best for the Govern-ment, and, if possible,

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