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The History of the Rifle Brigade (the Prince Consort's Own) Formerly the 95th

Chapter 32: FOOTNOTES:
By William Henry Cope
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An officer compiles a detailed regimental history tracing formation, battalion organization, and operational service across early 19th-century campaigns. Drawing on official records, officers' journals, and veterans' recollections, it narrates movements and engagements during the Peninsular War, the retreat to Corunna, expeditions such as Walcheren and New Orleans, and later actions in the Crimea and India, including mutiny-era operations. Chapters combine battlefield narratives, personal memoirs, maps, plans, lists of officers, and notes on peacetime life to present an operational and institutional account of the regiment's service.

FOOTNOTES:

[311] Now Brigadier-General John Ross, C.B., commanding Brigade in Bengal, and lately commanding a Brigade in the Malay Peninsula.

[312] This walking pace was fast for the camel, whose walk does not generally exceed three English miles an hour. The Heirie (or swift camel) can travel, at a trot, eight or ten miles an hour, and maintain this speed for many hours; but that pace is very rough and fatiguing to the rider (‘Illustrated Natural History,’ by the Rev. J. G. Wood, i. 706). We shall see hereafter what long and what rapid marches were made by the Camel Corps.

[313] Captain Buckley was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun, when out shooting November 1868.

[314] This (Jugdespore on the Sone) is a different place from Jugdespore in Oude, the scene of the operations of the 2nd Battalion in April, 1858.

[315] This affair is also said to have taken place at Nonadee (‘London Gazette’) or Hoadeh.

[316] Private letter, January 6, 1861. For this account of the actions and movements of the Camel Corps I am indebted to the journals of Captains George Curzon and Eyre; to information from Captain Austin, and Sergeants Carroll and Walsh; and especially to the letters of Colonel Ross.