[277] i.e. a grove or clump.
[278] Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Walpole died July 12, 1876.
[279] General Windham’s Despatch, November 30, 1857.
[280] Lieutenant Armstrong, who was attached to the Riflemen as interpreter, was also wounded in this sortie, being shot through both legs, one of which was amputated.
[281] Lieutenant-Colonel B. F. Alexander, retired.
[282] Colonel Ross’ letters; and General Mansfield’s Despatch, December 10, 1857. He specially mentions Brigadier Walpole, Lieutenant-Colonel Horsford, and Lieutenant-Colonel Fyers.
[283] A different place from that of the same name, where the battle subsequently took place.
[284] Lieutenant Henry D. Baillie, died November 1858, on passage home.
[285] Captain Riversdale R. Glyn, died at Aden, December 11, 1859.
[286] ‘Sepoy War,’ 245.