By William Francis Patrick Napier
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Their piercing eyes, their teeth of snowy whiteness, they pressed forwards fighting and crush- ing each other to see the "General Saib of the chap. — Sept. 22 part THE CONQUEST j-jS 1842. " the open high arched palanquin of crimson and Sept. gold, a small dark-visaged old falcon's glance, must have disappointed pectations, for they of man, but with a mind which was knew their ex- not then the heroic force so soon to invalidate their wild strength and furious courage on the dreadful field of Meeanee.
With these young Lords came camels for the Geneand around the Princes clustered the and nobles on horseback with all their thousands of retainers, chiefs and followers having keen heavy swords girt to their sides, and retinue ral's ; great Sirdars The large shields thrown over their shoulders. General was at the head of his own guard of the wild horsemen of India, and thus they met, the two bodies commingling, while a multitude on foot surrounded them shouting and screaming. For a moment the mass remained stationary, and then with tumultuous haste gorgeous disarray !
Musket is 13 however of an ancient pattern, and unne- chap. clumsy and heavy. For that strange eco' cessarily prevails in India as elsewhere, which spares a pound in the cost of a soldier's weapon to be repaid nomy by the loss of the soldier himself, goes into battle for less than a 1842 " although he never hundred pounds. Sir Charles Napier observed many errors in the videApp. tocl ->- 1 organization and discipline of the Indian army, - and digested in his own mind several changes with some of which respect to the artillery and baggage, he has effected since attaining the separate army ; command of a and always he was sanguine of good in these matters, because of the willingness to learn which he found in the Company's officers.
