The heart of the Scottish people followed with a yearning interest the movements of the Seventy-eighth throughout this memorable campaign. With gratitude our countrymen hailed the regiment, when a kind Providence recently restored it to its native land, where every grade of society united to do honour to that bravery which so conspicuously graced our national history upon the dismal page of the Indian mutiny, and in commemoration thereof a monument has been erected in Edinburgh, an Illustration of which is given in this work. We close our sketch with the feeling that words have failed to express the just admiration with which we must ever regard this, the “scion of the Seaforth,” the “Saviour of India.”
INAUGURATION OF THE MONUMENT TO THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH, EDINBURGH.
PRESENTATION PLATE TO THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH AS THE SAVIOURS OF INDIA.
THE SEVENTY-NINTH FOOT;
OR,
CAMERON HIGHLANDERS.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
“There’s many a man of the Cameron clan
That has follow’d his chief to the field;