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A detailed regimental history recounts the origin, training methods, and operational record of a frontier guides corps, following its actions in sieges, frontier skirmishes and major relief expeditions, and chronicling a notorious residency massacre and subsequent campaigns. The narrative interweaves tactical episodes and personal anecdotes of courage, accounts of recruitment and assimilation of local fighters, and portraits of leaders, concluding with a portrayal of life at the home station, its routines, sports, memorials, and the corps' institutional character.

A


Abazai,
96

Abbott, 12

Abdul Mujid, 153-9

Adams, Capt., 162

Adams, Col., 183-4

Afghan War, the, 1878-80, 117-134

Afghanistan, the yeoman armies of, 131

Afridis, the, 47
The Jowaki, 47, 93

Agnew, murder of, 18, 19
general references to, 12

Ahmed Jan, 61

Ajun Khan, 44

Alawi-ke-Serai, 71

Alexandra, Queen, 188

Ali Musjid captured by Guides, 119

Amandara Pass, 181

Amir Dost Mahomed Khan, 60

Amritsar, 31

Anderson, murder of, 19

Archæological treasures of the Guides, 189

Asmai heights, assaults on, 128

Attock, 67, 68, 94




B


Babuzai, village of, 9-12

Bahaud-din Khan, 120-2

Bajaur, 64

Baldwin, Lt., 162

Bandobust, 59

Bannu, 21

Barnes, Mr., (Commissioner) 71

Barton, F.H., Major, 193

Battye, Capt. Fred., 128, 164-5-7, 191, 193

Battye, Quentin, his death at Delhi, 74
References to, 124, 193

Battye, Capt. Wigram, 95, 123, 124, 125, 191, 193

Bengal Cavalry, 11th, 91

Bengal Fusiliers, 101st Royal, 90

Bengal Lancers, 11th, 178, 180-1

Beresford, Lord William, 83-6

Bhawulpore, 21

Bibi Pakdaman mosque, the, 22

Blood, Sir Bindon, 179, 182

Boileau, Col. S.B., 47

Bond, Lt., 80

Bori, attack on, 47-50

Bretherton, Major G.H., 193

Browne, Sir Sam., 119, 187

Brownlow, Sir Charles, 88-9

Budlika-Serai, battle of, 72

Buner, 177

Burhan, 68




C


Campbell, Sir Colin, 43

Campbell, Fred., 169

Campbell, Major R.B., 94

Cavignari, Sir Louis, and the attack on Paia, 93-4
And the attack on Sapri, 95-6
His work and death at Kabul, 97-116
References to, 92, 192

Chakdara, 174-5, 178-182

Chamberlain, Neville, Sir, 69, 78, 90

Charasiab, battle at, 132-4

Charpoy, 157

Chenab, the, 27, 70

Cherat, 47

Chillianwalla, battle of, 26

Chitral, the Mehtar of, 61-2
The relief of, 160-171

Chute, Col., 65

Climo, Lt., 177

Cotton, Sir Sidney, 75-6

Crag picquet, the, 87




D


Daly, Henry, in command of Guides, 68
His report of march to Delhi, 68-73
His death, 74
Reference to, 186

Dargai, 172

Deh-i-Afghan, 129

Delhi, Guides march to, 67
Captured, 74

Dera-Ismail-Khan district, 20

Derajat, 21

Derajat Battery, the, 170

Devonshire regiment, 168

Dilāwur Khan, Subadar of Guides, the story of, 51-54

Dir, Khan of, 170

Discipline, value of sequence of orders of command in action, 80

Dogras, 162

Dogras, the 38th, 178

Drill, dislike of free-lances to, 58

Duffadar, the, 10




E


Edward VII., King, 188

Edwardes, Herbert, general references to, 12, 50, 69
Marches against Mooltan, 20-1
Reports on position, 25

Eliott-Lockhart, Lt. P., 173

English, the, Pathan saying concerning, 63




F


Faiz Talab, Duffadar, spies upon a doubtful tribe, 138-43

Fakira, Duffadar, 87

Fattehabad, battle of, 123

Fatteh Khan, of Guides' cavalry, heroism of, 10-11

Fatteh Khan, Khuttuk, heroism of at Mooltan, 23-25, 38
At Gujar Garhi, 40-3

Feringhis, the (see English)

Fincastle, Viscount, 177, 184

Foot, 17th, 123

Foot, the 22nd, 47

Foot, 24th, 26

Foot, the 70th, 65

Ford, Lt., 177




G


Gaduns, the, 87

Gaikskill, 193

Ganda Singh: Defeated by Guides, 27-8

Ghazis, the, 124

Grand Trunk Road, 68

Godby, Gen. C.J., 187

Godby-road, 187

Gordon Highlanders, 168

Gorindghar, fortress of, captured by Guides, 31-8

Gough, Lord, 26

Gough, Sir Charles, 123

Greaves, Lt. R.T., 183

Guides, the Corps of:
Founded  by  Sir  Henry-Lawrence,
1-5
Lumsden, Harry, raises, 4
Its training and personnel, 5-6
Its first fight, 7
Adventure at Babuzai, 9-12
In Second Sikh War, 13-38
March to Lahore, 13-14
With Edwardes at Mooltan, 21
With Lumsden at Mooltan, 22-6
Defeat Ganda Singh at Nuroat, 27-8
At Gujrat, 28-30
Capture of Gorindghar by, 31-8
On the Frontier in the 'Fifties, 39-50
Defeat Mukaram Khan, 41-3
Charge at Nawadand, 43-6
At Bori, 47-50
The Story of Dilāwur Khan, subadar of, 51-64
In the Mutiny, 65-75
Daly, Henry, in command of, 68
March to Delhi, 67
The effect of arrival, 73
The return to Peshawur, 74
In minor wars, 76-96
In expedition against: Mahsud Waziri tribe, 78
In Umbeyla campaign, 87
In attack on Crag Picquet, 88-91
In attack on Paia, 93-4
At the Embassy at Kabul, 98
Massacre of, 102-116
In the Afghan War, 1878-80, 117-34
Attack Ali Musjid, 119
How Bahaud-din Khan joined the, 120-2
At Fattehabad, 123-27
March to Sherpur, 127-8
In assaults on Takht-i-Shah and Asmai Heights, 128-31
In battle at Charasiab, 132-4
War stories of, 135-43
Remarkable obedience to orders, 137
The adventure of Faiz Talab, 138-43
The adventures of Shah Sowar and Abdul Majid, 144-59
The Relief of Chitral, 160-71
Action at the Panjkora, 163-7
At the Malakand, 1897, 172-84
The Home of the Guides, 185-98
Leaders of Guides (see under Lumsden, Daly, Hodson,
Keyes, Jenkins, Campbell Lockhart, &c.).

Gundamuk, the Treaty of, 97, 98

Gurkhas, the, 47-8

Gurkhas, 2nd, 189

Gurkhas, 5th, 81

Gurkhas, 66th, 47




H


Hafiz Ji, 60

Hammond, Sir Arthur, 128

Hamilton, Lt. Walter:
Heroism and Death at Kabul, 98-116
At  Battle  of Fattehabad, 123-6
References to, 192-3

Hardinge, Lt. G.M.
At Nawadand, 44-6

Havildar, the, 34

Hazara, 77

Highlanders, 72nd, 128

Highlanders, 92nd, 128, 131-2

Highland Light Infantry, 71st., 90, 191

Hindustanis, the, 77, 87, 89

Hodson, Lt. W.S.R.:
With Lumsden at Lahore, 16
At Nuroat, 27-8
Commands Guides, 46
At Bori, 47-50
General References to, 186

Hodson bastion, 187

Home Farm, 193

Horse-artillery, 123

Hôti-Mardan Fort, 186

Hussars, 10th, 123

Hutchinson, Bob, 191




I


Indus, the, 94

Irregular cavalry, 2nd, 28

Irregular cavalry, 10th, 65




J


James, Mr., of Survey Department, 40

Jandul River, 166

Jehangira, Village of, 54

Jellalabad, 123, 124, 127

Jemadar, 108

Jenkins, Col. Sir Francis, 87, 119-22, 127, 132-3, 137, 143

Jenkins, Mr. W., at Kabul, 99-116, 192

Jewand Sing, 109

Jhelum, 69

Jugdullak Pass, 127

Juma of the bhisti, 54




K


Kabul, British Embassy at, 98
Massacre of Embassy Guard, 102-16
Memorial to Embassy Guard, 171

Kàlu Khan, 6

Kamoké, 70

Kandahar, 117

Karachi, 144

Karnal, 67, 71

Kelly, Col., 161

Kelly, Surgeon A.H., at Kabul, 99-116, 192

Keyes, Charlie, 194

Keyes, Sir Charles, in command of Guides, 88, 192

Khanan Khan, 21

Khan Singh, General of Sikhs, 14-6

Khar, 174, 179

Khyber Pass, 119, 135

King's Own Scottish Borderers, 168

Kipling, Rudyard, his poem on Gunga Din, 53

Kutlgar, the, 91




L


Lahore, 3, 32, 70

Landàki, action of, 182

Lataband Pass, 127

Lawrence, Lord, 50, 69, 82

Lawrence, Col. George, in Peshawur, 9, 12

Lawrence, Sir Henry, founds the Guides, 1-5
Ruler of the Punjab, 12

Le Bas, Mr., 72

Lewis, Lt., 80

Lhassa, 194

Lockhart, Lt., 176

Low, Robert, Sir, 161, 165, 170

Ludhiana, 71

Lumsden, Harry, General, raises the Corps of Guides, 4
Captures Mughdara, 7
At Lahore, 14-7
At Mooltan, 22-6
At Nuroat, 27-8
His choice of men, 51-3
And Dilāwur Khan, 55-9
And Waziris, 78-9
Transferred from Guides, 81
Tribute to his qualities, 81-3
References to, 10, 21, 87, 186, 189, 193

Lundkwar Valley, the, 9

Lyell, Dr. R., of the Guides, 48




M


Macgregor, Sir Charles, his tribute to the Guides,
97

Maclean, H. Lt., 177, 184, 193

Macpherson, Gen., 134

McQueen, Sir John, 192

Maharani (the) of the Punjab, revolt of, 13-7

Malakand, the, 162, 172-84

Malandrai, 191

Mandra, 69

Maps, the objections of the natives to surveying, 40, 155

Mardan, 40, 65, 67, 115, 125, 171
Daily life at, 194-5

Meerut, 65, 71

Mehtab Sing, 108

Meiklejohn, Col., 175-8

Metcalfe, Sir Theophilus, 72

Mihna, 70

Minchin, Lt., 174, 179

Mohaindin, 22

Monastery picquet, the, 88

Mooltan, fighting round, 19-30

Mounted Police, 65

Mughdara, village of, captured by Guides, 7

Mullah Abdullah, 87

Mulraj, the Diwan revolts, 18-9
Defeated by Herbert Edwardes, 21
Surrenders, 26

Mundah, 171

Mutiny, the Guides in the, 65-75




N


Naik, the, 10

Napier of Magdala, Lord, 50

Native Infantry, 14th, 89

Native Infantry, 55th, 65, 191

Native soldiers, their devotion to our English Officers, 82-6, 114, 125, 149
Awkwardness of using them against their own people, 136

Nawadand (Utmankheyl village of) captured, 43-6

Nicholson, John, pursues mutineers, 66
General reference to, 12, 65, 69

North camp (Malakand), 176

North-west frontier, 51

Nowshera, cantonment of, 65, 68, 93, 94

Nuksan Pass, 64




O


Ommanney, A.M., 191, 192

Order of, Merit, the twelve Guides awarded, 129
After the Malakand Campaign, 184

Owen, Roddy, 162




P


Paia, Cavignaris' attack on, 93-4

Panjkora, the, 166

Panjtar Hills, the, 7

Patiala, the Maharaja of, 71

Peebles, Captain, 170

Peshawur, 8, 40, 43, 61, 65, 66, 74, 83

Pioneers, 32nd, 170

Pipli, 71

Political Officers in the Punjab, 2

Probyn, Sir Dighton, 91

Punjab, the, position of British in 1846, 2, 8; in 1848, 12-7

Punjab Frontier Force, 192

Punjab Infantry, 1st, 88-9

Punjab Infantry, 5th, 65

Punjab Infantry, 20th, 47, 88, 89, 90

Punjab Infantry, 24th, 177

Punjab Infantry, 31st, 176-7




R


Rajpoora,
71

Ram Singh, 27-8

Rasul Khan, his stratagem at Gorindghar, 32-8

Rattray, Lieut., 174, 179, 181

Ravi, the, 17

Rawul Pindi, 67, 83

Reid, Col., 178

Ressaldar, the, 14

Ricketts, Mr. Deputy Commissioner at Ludhiana, 71

Rifles, 60th, 189

Roberts, Lord, and the Guides, 117-9, 129
References to, 127, 128, 129, 131-3

Ross, Major, C.C.G., 89, 90

Royal Bengal Fusiliers, 101st, 191

Royal Horse Artillery, F.-A Battery, 132




S


Sadusam, battle of, 22

Sapri, attack on, 95-6

Secrecy, its value in frontier warfare, 92

Shadipore, 94

Shah Sowar, 144-53

Shahzada Taimus, 106

Sheikapura, 16, 17

Sheikh Abdul Quadir ("Smith" of Karachi), 144-53

Shikar, 63

Sikh cavalry, 7

Sikh Durbar, the, 3, 8, 18

Sikh war, the first, position at close of, 12
the second, 12-30

Sikhs, the, their rule in 1846, 8

Sikhs, 4th, 81, 161, 168

Sikhs, the 35th, 178

Sikhs, the 45th, 178, 180

Sing, Sher, deserts at Mooltan, 25

Sittana, 76-7

Sobraon, 70

Sohawa, 69

Sowars, 21

Sport at Mardan, 195-8

Spottiswode, Col. Henry, his grief and suicide during mutiny, 66
Reference to, 191

Subadar, 32

Subaltern, the British, tribute to, 46, 181

Suraj Kund, 22

Surveying (see under "Maps".)

Sutherland Highlanders, 93rd, 191

Sutlej, 70

Swat River Canal, 95

Swat Valley, 162, 174, 179, 182

Swinley, Lt., 177




T


Takht-i-Shah, assaults on, 128

Taylor, 12

Topi, 87

Turner, Lt. F. McC., 48

Tytler, General, 119




U


Umballa, 32, 71

Umbeyla campaign, 87, 191




V


Van Cortlandt, 21

Vaughan, 65

Victoria, Queen, 188

Victoria Cross, the, awarded:
Lt. Walter Hamilton, 127
Capt. A.G. Hammond, 128
Lord Fincastle, 184
Colonel Adams, 184
Hector Maclean, 184




W


Wazirabad,
70

Waziris, the, 78

Wheatley, 181

Wheler, General, 28

Whish, General, 23, 25

White, Sir George, 131

Wilde, A.W., 193

Wilde, Sir Alfred, 192

Wright, Hedley, 181




Y


Yakub Khan, the Amir and the Embassy at Kabul, 98
And the massacre of Embassy, 108

Yusafzai, the plain of, 6, 9, 40, 54, 95, 185




Z


Ziarat, the, 63





THE END





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Transcriber's Notes:

In the List of Illustrations the one at page 162 was corrected as it was shown as page 16.

On page 23 near the bottom the word 'diposed' appears and has been corrected to read 'disposed'.

On page 52 (3rd paragraph, Chapter V.) the word "Shahbash" appears. It appears two other times in the text as "Shāhbāsh" so this instance is also changed to "Shāhbāsh".

On page 129 the village name 'Deh-i-Affghan' was changed to 'Deh-i-Afghan' to match the index using the much more common version.

On page 133 in the next to last line, the letter 'l' was dropped from the word 'General' and now added back.

On page 159 near the bottom an 'f' was left of off the word 'of' and now added back.

On page 170, at the bottom of the first paragraph, the word 'cannnot' was corrected to read 'cannot'.

(end of Transcriber's Notes)