Your brother,
Harry.
To W. M. Ford, Esq., Staff Surgeon, Chatham.
Headquarters, Simla, 4th May, 1846.
The enemy we have had to contend with lately are proper varmint fellows, and had they been commanded by Massena’s, Ney’s, Soult’s, Augereau’s victors, they would have made us look sharp to have victor’d them. I never saw men shot out of trees before. At Moodkee the bold rascals got into trees, shot our fellows in the rear, at first without our knowing where the shot came from, but when we discovered the where, it was the most extraordinary thing I ever saw to see half a dozen fellows out of each tree come rolling down like cock pheasants or capercailzie. When repulsed from their guns and position, they would sometimes throw down their musquets and come on sword and target (they all carry excellent swords) like antient Greeks.
APPENDIX VII.
Sir Harry Smith’s Recall from the Cape.
A. Copy of a Despatch from Earl Grey to Governor Sir H. G. Smith, Bart., G.C.B.
Downing Street, January 14, 1852.
Sir,