THE STORY OF
THE GUIDES


BY

COL. G.J. YOUNGHUSBAND, C.B.

QUEEN'S OWN CORPS OF GUIDES
AUTHOR OF "EIGHTEEN HUNDRED MILES ON A BURMESE TAT"
"INDIAN FRONTIER WARFARE," "THE RELIEF OF CHITRAL"
"THE PHILIPPINES AND ROUND ABOUT," ETC., ETC.


WITH ILLUSTRATIONS


MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1908


Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.


First Edition, March 1908.
Reprinted April 1908.


DEDICATED
BY SPECIAL PERMISSION
TO

HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII

COLONEL-IN-CHIEF
QUEEN'S OWN CORPS OF GUIDES


The Author's grateful thanks are due to themany past and present officers of the Guides whohave helped him in this little book. And especiallyto General Sir Peter Lumsden and G.R. Elsmie,Esq., authors of Lumsden of the Guides; and tothe Memoirs of General Sir Henry Dermot Daly,written by his son, Major H. Daly.
G.J.Y.
Sir Harry Lumsden, who raised the Guides, from a portrait made when he was commanding the corps
CONTENTS

 CHAPTER I.
FIRST STEPS IN WAR.
PAGE
Sir Henry Lawrence's idea—Stocks and tunics—A new departure—Selectionof title—Duties—Harry Lumsden—His methodsof training—Baptism of fire—A gallant exploit—Working forthe Sikhs—Capture of Babuzai—Death of Duffadar FattehKhan—The spring of 1848—Guides unravel a plot—GeneralKhan Singh hanged—The Maharani deported1  
 

CHAPTER II.
THE FIGHTING AROUND MOOLTAN AND AFTER.
The Insurrection at Mooltan—Murder of Agnew and Anderson—HerbertEdwardes's great achievement—A guide or two withnerves of steel—Siege of Mooltan—Guides capture twelveguns—Ressaldar Fatteh Khan, Khuttuk—His historiccharge—With seventy men routs a brigade—Arrival ofBombay troops—Mooltan stormed and taken—Lumsdenattacks and annihilates Ganda Singh's force—Battle ofGujrat—Pursuit of the Sikhs—End of Second Sikh War18  
 

CHAPTER III.
THE CAPTURE OF THE FORT OF GORINDGHAR.
The fort described—Seventy-two guns and a battalion of infantry—Britishdetermine to capture it—Rasul Khan andGuides' infantry sent in advance—The strategy of theSubadar—Effects an entry—A day of anxiety—Plans for thenight—The sudden onslaught—Capture of the fort—TheUnion Jack—Rasul Khan's reward ...                        
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