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Updated: May 22, 2025
The one fife made a thin and pitiful squeaking, but the tune carried far, even to the Gurkhas. "Come on, you dogs!" muttered Jakin, to himself, "Are we to play forhever?" Lew was staring straight in front of him and marching more stiffly than ever he had done on parade.
It consisted of fourteen hundred Sikhs, a regiment of Gurkhas, seven hundred cavalry, and six guns. This seemingly formidable and carefully composed body of troops proved, however, to be entirely unreliable. Agnew and Anderson were, within a few hours of their arrival at Mooltan, attacked and severely wounded by fanatics, and no one raised a hand to help them.
"Hail, Rajah Sahib!" he said in Hindustani. "Hail!" His voice had echoed into silence before Nehal Singh moved. Then he lifted his hand in greeting. "Hail, Englishman!" "You know me," Nicholson went on, drawing nearer. "I am Nicholson, Captain Nicholson of the Gurkhas." "I do not know you." There was a pitiless finality in the few words and in the gesture which accompanied them.
"This," said the Colonel of Gurkhas, softly, "is the real attack, as it ought to have been delivered. Come on, my children." "Ulu-lu-lu-lu!" squealed the Gurkhas, and came down with a joyful clicking of kukris those vicious Gurkha knives. On the right there was no rush. "Charrging is an unfortunate necessity," murmured the Color-Sergeant of the right company of the Highlanders.
The world will remember the vainglorious way in which Germany's enemies foretold that before long their armies would meet in the heart of Germany, where Cossacks would parade the streets of Berlin and Indian lancers and Gurkhas would stroll through the parks of Potsdam. The German fleet, it was asserted, would be at the bottom of the sea before it had time to think.
Whereat the Highlanders smote the Gurkhas as to the head, and told them not to vilify a British Regiment, and the Gurkhas grinned cavernously, for the Highlanders were their elder brothers and entitled to the privileges of kinship. The common soldier who touches a Gurkha is more than likely to have his head sliced open.
British dominion, after further wars with the Mahrattas, the Sikhs, and the Gurkhas, had extended up to the frontiers of Afghanistan; but there was always the fear lest another sword should take away dominion won by the British, and in British eyes it was an offence that any other power should expand in Asia.
At last a sapper named Manders, with half a dozen Gurkhas behind him, ran across the open space, and while the Gurkhas shot through the loop holes and kept the fire down, Manders fixed his gun cotton at the bottom of the door and lighted the fuse.
The Gúrkhas were far, indeed, from being subdued, but Ochterlony's success among their strongest fastnesses, aided by that of Colonels Gardner and Nicholls in the district of Kumáun, induced them to sue for peace, and offer territorial cessions.
Little Suji-ul-mulk, the Mehter elect, was present at the review with his following, and personally conducted by the B.A., resplendent in political uniform, we soldiers being in khaki. The parade was dismissed, and, headed by the pipes of the general's escort and of the 4th Gurkhas, we marched back to our camp.
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