The Nineteenth and Their Times / Being an Account of the Four Cavalry Regiments in the British Army That Have Borne the Number Nineteen and of the Campaigns in Which They Served

by J. Biddulph

“I shall have very much pleasure in reporting to H.R.H. the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief what I have told you to-day.”

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APPENDIX K.

REPORT BY COLONEL BARROW ON THE ARAB HORSES RIDDEN BY THE NINETEENTH HUSSARS DURING THE NILE CAMPAIGN OF 1885.

Description of Horse.

Arab stallion. Average height, 14 hands; average age, 8 years to 9 years; some 15 per cent. over 12 years; bought by Egyptian Government in Syria and Lower Egypt; average price, 18l.

Work done previous to Campaign.

Some 50 per cent. had been through the campaign in the Eastern Soudan with the 19th Hussars in February and March 1884, and returned in a very exhausted state, and about 10 per cent. had been at Tel-el-Kebir.

In June 1884 the whole number were taken by Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, with the Egyptian Cavalry, from Cairo to Assouan in barges, and remained there for two months.