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The European troops in Jellalabad would be out of meat rations early in April, and Havelock's calculation was that the grain, on which mainly subsisted the native soldiers, who had been on half rations since the new year, would be exhausted before the middle of that month.
All through Havelock's childhood the continent of Europe was under the foot of Napoleon, and was forced to submit to his rule. England only had stood aloof and refused his advances; yet she waited, with the dread that accompanies the expectation whose fulfilment is delayed, for an invasion of her own coasts.
The following was the total force under General Havelock's command when he commenced the series of battles which were finally to lead him to Lucknow: Seventy-six men of the Royal Artillery, three hundred and seventy-six of the Madras Fusiliers, four hundred and thirty-five of the Sixty-fourth Regiment, two hundred and eighty-four of the Seventy-eighth Highlanders one hundred and ninety men of the Eighty-fourth Regiment, twenty-two men of the Bengal Artillery.
Total of British regular troops, thirteen hundred and eighty-three, with eight guns. Besides these he had Warrener's Horse. The order for a halt was welcome indeed to the troops. Havelock's column had marched twenty-four miles without resting or eating, and fires were speedily lighted, and preparation made for breakfast.
Of course it's a shame; but that is the only way the race has ever got on: by the strong, because they were strong, going under for the weak, because they were weak. Otherwise we'd all be living, to this day, in hell." "I know; I know." Havelock's voice was touched with emotion. "That's the convention invented by individualists, for individualists. All sorts of people would see it that way, still.
Surgeon Joseph Jee, C.B., was another medical officer whose bravery was conspicuous. After that gallant charge made by the 78th Highlanders, when two guns were captured near the Char Bagh, as they, forming part of Sir Henry Havelock's force, were entering Lucknow on the 25th September 1857, numbers were left wounded on the ground.
One night sir Archibald Campbell ordered a sudden attack to be made on the Burmese by a certain corps. The messenger or orderly who was sent with the order returned saying that the men were too drunk to be fit for duty. 'Then call out Havelock's Saints, said the commander-in-chief; 'they are always sober and to be depended upon, and Havelock himself is always ready.
Havelock set his massive lips firmly together. You could not say that he pursed that Cyclopean mouth. "Ferguson did not boast. He merely told me. He was, I think, a modest man." Incredulity beyond any power of laughter to express settled on Chantry's countenance. "Modest? And he told you?" "The whole thing." Havelock's voice was heavy enough for tragedy. "Listen. Don't interrupt me once.
During this war a night attack was made by the enemy on an outpost; and the men ordered to repulse it were not ready when summoned. "Then call out Havelock's saints," said the commander-in-chief. "They are always sober, and can be depended upon, and Havelock himself is always ready."
After them in turn came the forces of the Commander-in-Chief, which joined on in the rear of Havelock's force. Regiment by regiment was withdrawn with the utmost order and regularity. The whole operation resembled the movement of a telescope. Stern silence was kept, and the enemy took no alarm."
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