'Time is everything just now. Time, firmness, promptness, conciliation, and prudence; every officer, each individual European, high and low, may at this crisis prove most useful, or even dangerous. A firm and cheerful aspect must be maintained—there must be no bustle, no appearance of alarm, still less of panic; but, at the same time, there must be the utmost watchfulness and promptness; everywhere the first germ of insurrection must be put down instantly. Ten men may in an hour quell a row which, after a day's delay, may take weeks to put down. I wish this point to be well understood. In preserving internal tranquillity, the Chiefs and people of substance may be most usefully employed at this juncture; many of them have as much to lose as we have. Their property, at least, is at stake. Many of them have armed retainers—some few are good shots and have double-barrelled guns. For instance [name illegible], can hit a bottle at 100 yards. He is with the ordinary soldiers. I want a dozen such men, European or Native, to arm their own people and to make thannahs of their own houses, or some near position, and preserve tranquillity within a circuit around them.'
[Return to [p. 196]]
APPENDIX [III.]
(Referred to at [p. 351.])
The column was composed as follows:
| Men. | Guns. | |
| F Battery, A Brigade, R.H.A., commanded by Colonel W.Sterling | 135 | 6 |
| One squadron 10th Hussars, commanded by Major Bulkeley | 102 | |
| G Battery, 3rd Brigade, R.A., commanded by Major Sydney Parry | 83 | 3 |
| 2nd Battalion 8th Foot, commanded by Colonel Barry Drew | 620 | |
| Wing 72nd Highlanders, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel F. Brownlow | 405 | |
| ——– | — | |
| Total British troops | 1,345 | 9 |
| 12th Bengal Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Hugh Gough, V.C. | 337 | |
| No. 1 Mountain Battery, commanded by Captain Kelso | 136 | 4 |
| 7th Company Bengal Sappers and Miners | 113 | |
| 2nd (Punjab Frontier Force) Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Tyndall | 647 | |
| 5th (Punjab Frontier Force) Infantry, commanded by Major McQueen | 502 | |
| 5th (Punjab Frontier Force) Gurkhas, commanded by Major Fitz-Hugh | 438 | |
| 21st Punjab Infantry, commanded by Major Collis | 496 | |
| 23rd Pioneers, commanded by Colonel Currie | 650 | |
| 29th Punjab Infantry, commanded by Colonel J.J. Gordon | 671 | |
| ——– | — | |
| Total Natives | 3,990 | 4 |
| ——– | — | |
| Grand total | 5,335 | 13 |
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Lindsay commanded the Artillery, Colonel Æneas Perkins was Commanding Royal Engineer. Colonel Hugh Gough commanded the Cavalry, Brigadier-Generals Cobbe (17th Foot) and Thelwall (21st Punjab Infantry) the two Infantry brigades. Major W. Galbraith (85th Foot) was Assistant-Adjutant-General; Major H. Collett, Assistant, and Captains 'Dick' Kennedy and F. Carr, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermasters-General. Captains G. de C. Morton and A. Scott, V.C, Brigade-Majors. Captain A. Badcock, Chief Commissariat officer; Captain J. Colquhoun, R.A., Commissary of Ordnance; Major Moriarty, Captain Goad, and Lieutenant F. Maisey, Transport officers; Captain A. Wynne (51st Foot), Superintendent of Field Telegraphs; Captain R. Woodthorpe, R.E., Superintendent of Surveys; Deputy-Surgeon-General F. Allen, Principal Medical officer; Rev. J. W. Adams, Chaplain.]