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32 Writing some years afterwards (November 30th, 1860), Sir Hugh Rose said: —

'I am now with the camp on the march to Lucknow, and going over the scene of Sir H. Havelock's successive advances from Cawnpur to Lucknow. It is very interesting, and the more so because I have an officer with me who was with him. Too much praise cannot be given to him. He had the greatest difficulties to contend with, the rain came down in torrents, the country was flooded so that he could scarcely move his artillery off the roads. And besides his losses from the enemy, his men were carried off by dysentery and cholera, in consequence of their having no tents and being exposed to all the inclemency of the weather, with insufficient food and very hard work.'