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Rh you, but that courage without discipline was of no avail; and I exhorted you to let discipline be your watchword. You have attended to my orders. In hardships, in temptations, and in dangers, you have obeyed your General and have never left your ranks. You have fought against the strong, and you have protected the rights of the weak and defenceless, of foes as well as of friends. I have seen you in the heat of the combat preserve and place children out of harm's way. This is the discipline of Christian soldiers, and this it is which has brought you triumphant from the shores of Western India to the waters of the Jumna.'

Sir Hugh Rose himself was prostrated with sickness. He had had three attacks of the sun at Kúnch, a fourth in an intermediate reconnaissance, and a fifth in the general action before Kálpi. As the remedies administered to enable him to rise again, ride, and retain command in the field were necessarily strong, whilst his duties became more onerous from all his staff being sick or ailing, he became quite overborne with fatigue and anxiety. The condition of the force was described by an eye-witness (Dr. Lowe), who wrote: 'The General was very ill ; his chief of the staff, General Wetherall, was in a raging fever; his Quartermaster-General, Captain Macdonald, worn out; the Chaplain of the Force had lost his reason, and was apparently sinking fast.'

The capture of Kálpi completed the plan of the campaign, which the Government of India had drawn