[Footnote 3:  Literally ‘blue cow,’ one of the bovine antelopes.]

[Footnote 4:  A few days afterwards, when we were some miles from the scene of our adventure, I was awakened one morning by the greyhound licking my face; she had cleverly found me out in the midst of a large crowded camp.]

[Footnote 5:  Peel had changed his 24-pounders for the more powerful 64-pounders belonging to H.M.S. Shannon.]

[Footnote 6: 

Naval Brigade 431
Artillery 1,745
Engineers 865
Cavalry 3,169
Infantry 12,498
Franks’s Division 2,880
Nepalese Contingent 9,000
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30,588]

[Footnote 7:  Kaye, in his ‘History of the Indian Mutiny,’ gives the credit for originating this movement to the Commander-in-Chief himself; but the present Lord Napier of Magdala has letters in his possession which clearly prove that the idea was his father’s, and there is a passage in General Porter’s ’History of the Royal Engineers,’ vol. ii., p. 476, written after he had read Napier’s letters to Sir Colin Campbell, which leaves no room for doubt as to my version being the correct one.]

[Footnote 8:  Outram’s division consisted of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 79th Highlanders, 2nd and 3rd battalions of the Rifle Brigade, 1st Bengal Fusiliers, 2nd Punjab Infantry, D’Aguilar’s, Remmington’s and Mackinnon’s troops of Horse Artillery, Gibbon’s and Middleton’s Field Batteries, and some Heavy guns, 2nd Dragoon Guards, 9th Lancers, 2nd Punjab Cavalry, and Watson’s and Sandford’s squadrons of the 1st and 5th Punjab Cavalry.]

[Footnote 9:  The late Lieutenant-General Sir Lothian Nicholson, K.C.B.]

[Footnote 10:  Now Colonel Thomas Butler, V.C.]

[Footnote 11:  Now General the Right Hon. Sir Edward Lugard, G.C.B.]

[Footnote 12:  It was current in camp, and the story has often been repeated, that Hodson was killed in the act of looting.  This certainly was not the case.  Hodson was sitting with Donald Stewart in the Head-Quarters camp, when the signal-gun announced that the attack on the Begum Kothi was about to take place.  Hodson immediately mounted his horse, and rode off in the direction of the city.  Stewart, who had been ordered by the Commander-in-Chief to accompany the troops, and send an early report to his Excellency of the result of the assault, had his horse ready, and followed Hodson so closely that he kept him in sight until within a short distance of the fighting, when Stewart stopped to speak to the officer in charge of Peel’s guns, which had been covering the advance of the troops.  This delayed Stewart for a few minutes only, and as he rode into the court-yard of the palace a Highland soldier handed him a pistol, saying, ’This is your pistol, sir; but I thought you were carried away mortally wounded a short time ago?’ Stewart at once conjectured that the man had mistaken him for Hodson.  In face they were not much alike, but both were tall, well made and fair, and Native soldiers had frequently saluted one for the other.  It is clear from this account that Hodson could not have been looting, as he was wounded almost as soon as he reached the palace.]