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Raynor, Lieutenant 344

recreations, soldiers’ 159

Reed, Major General Thomas 77, 209

Rees, L. E. 393, 452

regimental mascots 175

regiments

104th Foot (Bengal Fusiliers) 485–6

Agra Volunteer Horse 148

regiments—
cont.

Beatson’s Horse 360

Bengal European Cavalry 253

Bengal European Fusiliers 1st 235, 346–7, 425–6 2nd xxiv, 230, 236, 238, 425–6, 473–4

Bengal European Regiment 11–12, 244, 344, 402 1st 130

Bengal Horse Artillery 162, 235–6, 334–5, 337

Bengal Lancers, 9th and 10th xxx

Bengal Light Cavalry 2nd 364–5 3rd 74

Bengal Native Infantry 1st
(Lal Pultan)
259–60, 345 18th 257 20th 314 21st 257 25th 315 31st 379 35th 301, 396, 428 42nd 8, 531 43rd 10 45th 315 47th 8, 273 49th 384 56th 257–8 57th 193 59th 10 64th 273 66th 72 67th 347 79th 384

Bengal Volunteers, 2nd 257

Bombay European Fusiliers, 1st 384–5, 539n.63

Bombay Fusiliers, 2nd 473

Bombay Light Cavalry 2nd 320–1 3rd 313–14, 354

Bombay Native Infantry 1st (Grenadiers) 354 4th 384 19th 353, 384 30th (Jacob’s Rifles) 354, 355, 356

Bombay Regiment, 1st 297–8

Broadfoot’s Sappers and
Jezailchis
215, 396

Central India Horse 212

Corps of Guides 192, 210, 211, 212, 295, 321

Gardner’s Horse 441

Gurkhas

2nd Gurkhas 301

66th (Gurkha) Native Infantry 72

Kumaon Battalion 301

Naisiri Battalion 18, 72, 531

Sirmoor Battalion 18

Hodson’s Horse xxx, 82, 360, 372–3

Jacobabad Light Artillery 192

Jacob’s Rifles 192, 354, 355, 356

Kashmir Mountain Battery 196

Light Cavalry 5th 300–1, 368–9 10th 362

Madras European Battalion 423

Madras European Regiment 244 1st 162

Madras Fusiliers, 1st 235, 353

Madras Native Infantry 273

Madras Sappers and Miners 255

Oudh Irregular Cavalry, 3rd 391

Pioneers, 34th 298

Probyn’s Horse 354

Punjab Cavalry 1st [Daly’s Horse] 193, 213–14, 261 4th 304 5th 302–3

Punjab Infantry 2nd 346–7 4th 301 6th 192

Régiment de Meuron
216–17

Scinde Camel Corps 192

Scinde Horse, 3rd 354

Scinde Irregular Horse 192

Scinde Rifles 192

Sikhs
3rd 358 4th 347 14th xxviii 36th 287–8

Skinner’s Horse 214, 309

regiments, British Army

posted to India 217, 231–3

passages to India 94, 96–7, 98–9, 100, 101, 104, 107–8, 109

women and children 97–8

arrival in India 110–11, 114–15, 117

cavalry 218, 220

3rd Light Dragoons 98, 125–6, 131, 149, 159, 218, 371, 402, 419–20, 491,493–4

at Sobraon (1846) 9, 15

charges, at Tezin (1842) and Mudki (1845) 365–7

6th Dragoon Guards 29

8th Hussars 372

9th Lancers 187, 370, 371, 372, 454–5, 473

10th Hussars 29

11th Light Dragoons 218, 224

13th Light Dragoons 218

14th Light Dragoons 149, 300–1, 313, 360, 368–9, 369–70, 371, 417

16th Lancers xxvi, 65, 149, 232, 367–8, 449

16th Light Dragoons 97

17th Lancers 364

19th Light Dragoons 273, 294

infantry 217, 218–20

2nd Queen’s Royal Regiment 379

5th Fusiliers 506

6th Foot 217

9th Foot 343, 402

10th Foot 10, 145, 283, 342

12th Foot 145, 225, 478–9, 480

13th Light Infantry 57, 120, 301, 344, 378, 396, 433

17th Foot 379–80, 449

22nd Foot 60, 232, 319

24th 68, 159, 315, 402

26th Foot 417, 433

31st Foot xxv, 108, 233, 344, 402

at Sobraon (1846) 8, 12–13, 14–15

32nd Foot 115, 159, 232, 250,

326, 329, 330, 343, 384, 385, 386, 390, 402–3, 494

33rd Foot 145, 219, 292, 464

38th 115

39th Foot 96, 217, 244, 342

40th Foot 119

44th 56, 57, 314

49th Foot 217

50th xxv, 1–3, 402, 531

at Sobraon (1846) 5, 7–8, 12–14, 15, 18

uniform 3–4

52nd Light Infantry 129–30, 132, 164, 402, 421–2, 465

53rd Foot 10, 411

54th 108

60th Rifles 301, 384

61st Foot 137, 346–7, 362

62nd 402

64th Foot 326, 353

66th Foot 99, 315, 344–5, 354, 355

67th Foot 217

69th Foot 273

70th 473

73rd Highlanders 117, 292

75th 162, 230, 345–6, 354, 425, 475

76th Foot 166

78th Highlanders 393

84th 48

86th Foot 473

90th 163

93rd Highlanders 101, 110–11,

162–3, 184–5, 301, 350, 354, 411–12, 431, 503

Gordon Highlanders, 1st

Battalion 358

Hampshire Regiment 217

Princess of Wales’s Royal

Regiment 217–18

1st Royal Fusiliers (City of

London Regiment) 87

regiments, British Army –
cont.

infantry –
cont.

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 219

Royal Welch Fusiliers 100, 174–5

Royal West Kents 454

Somerset Light Infantry, 1st

Battalion 120

West Yorkshires, 2nd Battalion 357

Regulating Act (1773) 52

religous attitudes 458–63

returning warriors 500–6

revolvers 363

Rewah 198–9

Rheygur, capture (1818) 279

Richards, Private Frank 100, 128, 143, 150, 174–5, 187, 218, 253, 452–3, 482, 502–3

Richmond, Richard 108

Ridges, Dr Josiah 438

rifle stealing, precautions against 174

rifles

Enfield 73, 353–4

Lee-Enfield 356

Lee-Metford 356, 357

Martini–Henry 82, 354, 356

Snider 82, 174, 354, 355, 356

Ripon, George Robinson, Marquess of [Viceroy, 1880–84] 453

river transport 27

Roach, John 308–9

Roberts, Major General Sir Abraham 113, 246, 504

Roberts, Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl, VC xxiv, xxvi, 183, 195, 206, 240, 270, 299, 323, 328–9, 363, 467, 472, 498, 504

as young officer 95, 113, 246

during Mutiny 207, 241–2, 405

earns VC 326, 345

in Second Afghan War 86, 398–401

as C-in-C, India 259

Roberts, Lady Nora 472, 498

Robertson, Sergeant 378

Roe, Captain Peter 92

Rose, Captain Herbert 412

Rose, Major General Sir Hugh 78–9

Rosney, Private 456

Ross, Surgeon Alexander 481

Ross, Captain Claye xxviii

Ross, Private Johnny 479–80

Ross, Sir Robert 257

Rotton, Revd John Edward Wharton 408–9, 464–5, 466

Rowe, Private James 425

Royal Artillery 216, 231, 242, 253, 255

Royal Engineers 220, 231, 253

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 231, 250

Royal Military Artificers and Labourers 220

Royal Military College, Sandhurst 250, 253

Royal Navy 109

rum 418

Rumbold, Sir Thomas 50

Russell, Lieutenant 316

Russell, Sir William H. 26, 32, 135, 146, 157, 279, 293, 395, 410, 448–9, 492

Russia, threat to British India 55

Ryan, Lady 442

Ryan, Lieutenant Colonel 18

Ryan, Major 308

Ryan, Private John, VC 235

Ryan, Private Michael, VC 235

Ryder, Corporal John xxiv, 318, 343, 383, 389, 427, 502

ryots
40, 41

sabres 350, 359, 360

Sadusam, battle (1848) 438

sahib, title xxiii–xxiv

St James’s Church, Delhi 459

St John’s Church, Calcutta 220

Sale, Florentia, Lady 35, 56

Sale, Major General Sir Robert 57, 321, 324, 396, 397, 398, 408, 446

Sandys, Lieutenant Colonel Edward 221

Sansor Chand 305

Sappers and Miners 220

Saragarhi (1897) 287–8

Sassneg (1802) 376–7

Satara, annexation of 70

Sayer, Sir John 445

scabbards 349, 361

Scindia, Daulat Rao, of Gwalior 54, 55

Scindia, Sir Jayaji Rao, Maharajah of Gwalior 212

Scott, Lieutenant Charles 94–5

Scott, Captain Richard 477

scurvy 475

sepoy regiments, in the Mutiny 258

sepoys, British opinion of 293–302

sergeant majors 219, 220

sergeants 219

Seringapatam, capture (1799) 217, 333, 386–7

servants 155, 267–8, 492–3

Seully, Private Thomas 457

Shah Alam II, Mughal emperor 43

Shah Shujah, Amir of Kabul 55, 56, 59, 201

Shakespear, Major Sir Richmond C. 324

Sham Singh 16

Shams-ud-din Khan, Nawab of Ferozepore 214

Shawe, Lieutenant Colonel 225

Shelton, Brigadier 228–9

Shepherd, James 305

Sher Ali, Amir of Afghanistan 86

Sher Singh 62

Sherer, J. W. 136, 166, 198, 300, 469–70

Sherpur, battle (1880) 86, 398–401

Shikarpore Hunt 167

Shipp, John xxiv, 105, 118, 172, 184, 221–2, 278–9, 288, 318, 335, 387–8, 404, 411, 431, 434

Shivaji, Maratha ruler 40

shooting 164

shooting expeditions
(shikar)
165

Shore, Sir John [Governor General, 1792–97]
(later
1st Baron Teignmouth) 53–4

Showers, Lieutenant Colonel 477

Showers, Brigadier St George 230, 316, 341

Shrapnel, Lieutenant Henry 337

Shujah-ud-Daulah, Nawab of Oudh 49

siege warfare 375–401

Sikander Lodi, Sultan of Delhi 38

Sikh army (the
Khalsa)
5, 62–3

artillery 8–9, 333

cavalry 359–60

at Sobraon (1846) 7, 10–11, 14, 16–17

Sikh service

British in 304–5, 305–6, 310

foreigners in 306–7

Sikh Wars xxxi, 6

First (1845–46) 5, 63–6

[Battles: (1) Mudki, (2) Ferozeshah,
(3)
Aliwal, (4) Sobraon]

Second (1848–49) 66–9

[Battles: (1) Multan, (2) Ramnagar, (3) Chillianwallah, (4) Gujrat]

Sikhs 36, 40, 55, 61, 202, 295–6, 311

Simla 181–2

Sind, annexation of (1843) 60–1

Sind Club, Karachi 119

Sind Frontier Force 192, 194

Sind service, British in 304, 309

Sirsa 308

Sita Ram, Subadar xxiv–xxv, 17, 18, 64, 73, 260–1, 446, 449

Sitabaldi, battle (1817) 55

Skinner, Captain Hercules 246–7

Skinner, Lieutenant Colonel James xxvi, xxvii–xxviii, 41, 214, 246–7, 309, 443, 459

Sleeman, Major General Sir William 70, 198

Slessor, Captain William 474

Smeardon, Fulwood 248, 251

Smith, Major 229, 342

Smith, Captain Emilius Felix xxvi, 308

Smith, Private George xxx–xxxi

Smith, Private George Loy 417, 432, 433, 489

Smith, Major General Sir Harry 7, 9, 12, 15, 18, 64, 65, 172, 323, 333, 368, 416, 504

Smith, Private John, VC 235

Smith, Juanita, Lady 15, 18

Smith, Major Louis Ferdinand 308

smoking, hookah 439

Smyth, Major Rowland 367

Smyth, Captain James Carmichael 385

Sobraon, battle (1846) 6–18, 65–6, 336, 342, 402, 499

social distinctions 146–7, 148–9, 150, 151, 152–4

Soldiers’ Total Temperance Association 434

Sounda 305

Souter, Captain 57, 344

Spence, Captain James 108

Spens, Captain 351

spirits, daily issue of 417–18, 419

squadron sergeant majors 220

Stalker, Brigadier 384

Stapylton, Ensign C. G. C. 58–9, 396, 397

Staunton, Captain 297, 298

staying on, soldiers 149–50

Stevenson, Colonel James 328

Stewart, Lieutenant General Sir Donald 86, 271

Stirling, Lieutenant 243

Strahan (sailor, HMS
Kent)
46–7

‘strike first’ principle 328–9, 332, 337

Sturt, Major William 476

sudder
121

Sudil Khan 261

Suez Canal 95

Suffren de Saint-Tropez, Admiral Pierre–André de 109

suicides, attempted 405–6

supply, logistics of 291

Suraj-ud-Daula, Nawab of Bengal 46, 47

Surat 44, 45

surgeons 406

Sutherland, Colonel Robert 307, 308

sword knots 362

swords 348–52, 359, 360–2

Sylvester, Surgeon John Henry 354, 360

Tamerlane (Timur-i-Lenk) 38

Tanjore 54

Tantia Tope 79, 336

targets [shields] 349, 350

Taylor, George 451, 473

Taylor, Colonel Reynell 195

Taylor, Sergeant Robert 95–6

Tej Singh 16, 63

temperence associations 433, 434

tent clubs 167–8

tents 132–3

Terentiev, Colonel 85

Tetley, Captain 257

Tezin, action (1842) 365–6

Thackwell, Major General Sir Joseph 15, 16

thieves 173–4

Thomas, George xxvi

Thompson, Captain 369–70

Thompson, Colour Sergeant
[later
Major General] 2, 13–14, 227

Thomsett, Lieutenant Colonel Richard 34, 140, 157, 164

thuggee
198

Tibet 87

tiger shooting 165–6

Timur-i-Lenk (Tamerlane) 38

Tipu, Sultan of Mysore xxiii, 53, 54, 292, 332–3, 387

Tirah campaign (1897–98) 86, 358

Tombs, Major Henry 318

Tone, Colonel William Henry 308

Tookey, Private 417

Travancore, Sultan of 53

treasuries, travelling military 126–7

Tritton, Lieutenant 14

Trochu, General Louis 348

troop movements, by train 136

troop sergeant majors 220

troopships 92–3, 100–1, 108

East Indiamen as 96–7, 99, 108

Tucker, Robert 461

Tuker, Lieutenant General Sir Francis 81

Tulaji Angria 36–7

tulwars
349, 350, 359

Tytler, Harriet 486

Umballa 139, 152, 210

Unett, Captain Walter 125, 365–6

uniform and kit 3–4, 162–4

Upper Sind Frontier 194

Ure, Mrs 103

Van Courtlandt, Henry Charles 310