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Rh fatigue; but they would not increase the anxieties of their General or belie their devotion by complaint. No matter how great their exhaustion or how deep their short sleep, they always sprung to my call to arms with the heartiest good-will. To think of yielding or retreating would have been ignominy. All felt that physical strength might fail, but that the spirit and discipline never could. They were often too ill to march, but their devotion made them fight. It is almost superfluous to add that troops animated by so high a sense of duty were sober, orderly, and very respectful to their officers. There was less crime in my camp than in garrison.'

Kálpi is situated on a high rock rising from the Jumna, and is surrounded by miles of deep ravines. Sallying out from their almost impregnable ambuscade, the rebels unceasingly hampered the troops on the left of Sir Hugh Rose's position; while opposite his right was the army of the Nawáb of Bánda, who, after his defeat by Whitlock (19th April, 1858), joined the rebels at Kálpi, with a serviceable body of cavalry.

Acting upon information that the enemy intended to make a determined attack upon his right, on the morning of May 22nd, Sir Hugh Rose at once strengthened his position there; and at the same time asked Brigadier Maxwell to send him the Camel Corps, two companies of the 88th Regiment, and some Sikh infantry. Placing himself in the centre of his line, with the Camel Corps under Major (now Lieutenant-General Sir John) Ross, he was ready, on the eventful