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GOUGH'S ACTION

AT

FUTTEHABAD.

BY THE

REV. C. SWINNERTON, BENGAL CHAPLAIN,

CHAPLAIN IN THE FIELD WITH THE FIRST DIVISION,
PESHAWUR VALLEY FIELD FORCE.

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W. H. ALLEN AND CO.

13 WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.

PUBLISHERS TO THE INDIA OFFICE.

1880.

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PRINTED BY W. H. ALLEN AND CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE.

INTRODUCTION.

MUCH of the following account was written at Jelalabad or at Gundamuk.

The details of the action at Futtehabad are from descriptions by officers and men of all ranks who were actually engaged. The field itself was visited by the writer a day or two after the engagement.

The writer's thanks are specially due to Brigadier-General Charles Gough, C.B., V.C.; Colonel Lord R. Kerr, 10th Hussars; Major the Hon. A.

Stewart, R.H.A.; Captain Combe, 10th Hussars; Captain Swetenham, 27th P.N.I.; Lieutenant Hamilton, V.C. (now, alas! no more), of the Corps of Guides, and to several non-commissioned officers and men of the 10th Hussars and 17th Regiment, for much interesting information, as well as to G. B. Scott, Esq., Survey of India, for his excellent maps.

The sketch of the fatal ford near Jelalabad was kindly sent by BrigadierGeneral Tytler, C.B., V.C.

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