The Story of the Guides — Key Ideas to Explore

Sir Henry Lawrence's idea--Stocks and tunics--A new departure--Selection of title--Duties--Harry Lumsden--His methods of training--Baptism of fire--A gallant exploit--Working for the Sikhs--Capture of Babuzai--Death of Duffadar Fatteh Khan--The spring of 1848--Guides unravel a plot--General Khan Singh hanged--The Maharani deported 1

THE FIGHTING AROUND MOOLTAN AND AFTER.

The Insurrection at Mooltan--Murder of Agnew and Anderson--Herbert Edwardes's great achievement--A guide or two with nerves of steel--Siege of Mooltan--Guides capture twelve guns--Ressaldar Fatteh Khan, Khuttuk--His historic charge--With seventy men routs a brigade--Arrival of Bombay troops--Mooltan stormed and taken--Lumsden attacks and annihilates Ganda Singh's force--Battle of Gujrat--Pursuit of the Sikhs--End of Second Sikh War 18

THE CAPTURE OF THE FORT OF GORINDGHAR.

The fort described--Seventy-two guns and a battalion of infantry--British determine to capture it--Rasul Khan and Guides' infantry sent in advance--The strategy of the Subadar--Effects an entry--A day of anxiety--Plans for the night--The sudden onslaught--Capture of the fort--The Union Jack--Rasul Khan's reward 31

ON THE FRONTIER IN THE 'FIFTIES.

Guides increased--Fatteh Khan, Khuttuk, again--The night attack--Staunchly repulsed--Thirty against two hundred--With Sir Colin Campbell--Nawadand--The enemy attack in force--A cavalry picquet--Lieutenant Hardinge to the front--His splendid charge with twenty men--Hodson of Hodson's Horse--Attack on Bori--Lieutenant Turner's predicament--Gallantry of Dr. Lyell--Hodson's charge--Celebrated spectators 39

THE STORY OF DILAWUR KHAN.

Men accustomed to look after themselves--Shooting for a vacancy in the Guides--No fiddlers and washermen--Rudyard Kipling's _Bhisti_--The brave Juma decorated--Enter Dilawur Khan--A noted outlaw--Lumsden pursues him--They "talk things over"--The outlaw enlists--The goose-step--Dilawur the doctrinarian--The sinking boat--Nearly killed as a Kafir--Becomes a Christian--His last duty--A brave but pathetic end 51

THE GREAT MARCH TO DELHI.

The Mutiny of the 55th Native Infantry--Their tragic fate--The Guides start for Delhi--Daly's diary--A fight by the way--An average of twenty-seven miles a day--Arrival at Delhi--Every officer killed or wounded first day--The summer of '57--Return to the Frontier--A warm welcome--Three hundred and fifty out of six hundred left behind--Complement of officers four times over killed or wounded 65

TWENTY YEARS OF MINOR WARS.

With Sir Sidney Cotton against the Hindustani fanatics--Fierce hand to hand fighting--Dressed to meet their Lord--Against the Waziris in 1860 under Sir Neville Chamberlain--Fierce attack on the Guides' camp--Lumsden stands the shock--The charge of the five hundred--The Guides clear the camp with the bayonet--Heavy casualties--Lumsden's last fight--A story or two--Lord William Beresford--The Crag picquet--Colonel Dighton Probyn--A boat expedition--Cavignari's methods--Surprise of Sappri 76

THE MASSACRE OF THE GUIDES AT KABUL.

The Cavignari mission--Escort of the Guides--Cordial reception--The clouds gather--Insubordination of Herati regiments--The storm bursts--Seventy men against thousands--Defence of the Residency--The fight begins--Cavignari's bravery and death--Messages to the Amir--The attempt of Shahzada Taimus--The enemy's guns arrive--The distant witness--The three officers lead a charge--Kelly's death--Another charge by Hamilton and Jenkyns--Jenkyns killed--Hamilton's last charge and heroic death--The last bright flash--Retribution 97

THE AFGHAN WAR, 1878-80.

The Guides under Sir Frederick Roberts--Their devotion to him--Under Sir Sam Browne at Ali-Musjid--Jenkins enlists an enemy--"No riding school for me"--Battle of Fattehabad--Wigram Battye's death--Hamilton's fine leading--He wins the V.C.--The Guides' march to Sherpur--They pass through the investing army--Assaults on the Takht-i-Shah and Asmai heights--Captain Hammond receives the V.C.--The final assault of the enemy on Sherpur--Defeat and pursuit--The second battle of Charasiab--A fine fight--Roberts marches to Kandahar 117

Fighting against his own people--The temptation--The sentry succumbs--Seventeen sent in pursuit--Their return after two years--Duffadar Faiz Talab's adventure--An unwilling General--His unhappy position--A narrow escape--Saved by a British officer 135

THE ADVENTURES OF SHAH SOWAR AND ABDUL MAJID.

Shah Sowar meets "Smith"--They depart together--Sheikh Abdul Qadir, late Smith--A travelling Prince--The first pitfall--Escape--Tea and diplomacy--The Evil Spirit--The Chief with a thousand spears--The Englishman's disguise fails--Death in the morning--A hairbreadth escape--Abdul Majid--The fatal shoes--The compass down the well--A night with his jailer--A stroke for freedom--A later meeting--Peace and jollification 144

THE RELIEF OF CHITRAL.

The beleaguered garrison--Two hundred miles from anywhere--Rapid mobilisation--Kelly's fine feat--Storming the Malakand--The Guides' charge in the Swat Valley--Roddy Owen--The Panjkora--Position of the Guides--The bridge breaks--The fight in retreat--Seven thousand held at bay--A battle on the stage--Colonel Fred. Battye mortally wounded--A night of suspense--Defeated by star-shells--Death of Capt. Peebles--Action of Mundah--Relief of Chitral 160

A sudden call on the Guides--Prompt departure and fine march--Days and nights of constant hand-to-hand fighting--Story of the trouble--Great bravery of the enemy--Repulsed again and again with slaughter--Reinforcements arrive--Sir Bindon Blood--Relief of Chakdara--Its splendid defence--A word for the British subaltern--The fight at Landaki--MacLean's heroic death--Three V.C.s in one day 172

THE HOME OF THE GUIDES.

A camp to start with--The Five Star Fort--On the borders of Yaghistan--After the mutiny--The bastions--Godby cut down--The mess--The garden--The old graveyard--The Kabul memorial--Ommanney's assassination--The names of roads--Old leaders--The farm--Polo-grounds--Church--Daily life--Sport--Hawking--Climate--A happy home 185

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Sir Harry Lumsden, who raised the Guides, from a portrait made when he was commanding the corps _Front_.

Afridis on the war-path _To face page_ 8