[52] Milne’s Standards and Colours of the British Army.
[53] Twelve years of military adventure.
[54] Thorn’s Memoir of the War in India.
[55] The force would appear a very large one to deal with a band of freebooters, but according to one who was present they numbered upwards of 50,000 men. Though this was probably an exaggeration, it suffices to show that they were very numerous.
[56] “Nothing would appear to be more trivial to the public interests than the length of the hair on the upper lip of a sepoy, yet to the individual himself, the shape and fashion of the whisker is a badge of his caste, and an article of his religion.”—Report of Special Commission on mutiny at Vellore.
[57] Quebec Mercury, 18th May 1813.
[58] He had been created a Knight of the Bath for his victory at Detroit.
[59] The present town of Toronto was known as York in 1813.
[60] Lundy’s Lane Hist. Society.
[61] Afterwards Sir Gordon Drummond, K.C.B.