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Rh But it is time to consider the part he took in the Indian Mutiny Campaign. After the Crimean War, being desirous of serving in India, Major-General Sir Hugh Rose was given by the Duke of Cambridge a division in the Bombay Presidency. Reaching Bombay on September 19th, 1857, he was shortly afterwards placed in command of a field force, with orders to march through Central India to Kálpi and 'to give a hand,' as it were, to Sir Colin Campbell's army, then operating on the lines of the Jumna and Ganges. At this time the whole of the difficult country to the north of the Narbadá was in the hands of the rebels. The Gwalior Contingent held Kálpi; the redoubtable Rání of Jhánsí was in undisputed possession of the large tract of country surrounding her fortress; while Tántia Topi and the revolted Gwalior Contingent were close at hand to assist her in opposing the advance of Sir Hugh Rose's little force. In all that part of India the mass of the population had been able for nearly twelve months to