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134 rendered) and his admiration of their endurance, and of their gallant bearing on the many occasions in which they have come in contact with the enemy.

“The Gazette of the 23rd March, 27th April, 11th May, 6th and 13th July, 13th August, 12th and 19th October, 23rd November, 1858, and 11th and 18th January and 9th March, 1859, all that the Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry have borne a distinguished part in the several operations therein recounted.

“Long marches, exposure, fatigue, and harassing patrol and picket duties have from the first fallen to the lot of this young Corps, and they have borne the whole in a truly soldier-like spirit.

“The Governor-General in Council desires to convey to the brave officers and men of the Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry — a regiment of which, all who have belonged to it may be proud — his best thanks for the good service they have rendered to the State, and in disbanding the Corps, he wishes the members of it a hearty farewell.”

The reader will have noticed that, in quoting the numerous Gazettes recounting the fourteen actions in which we were engaged during the campaign, I have mentioned only about half that number in the preceding chapters; and my reason for curtailing them, I ought to say, is simply because they so closely resembled one another in general feature that, had I described them all, it would have been almost tantamount to describing the same actions, as it were, over and over again.

And now, with almost the last drop of ink in my laboured pen, I have only to add that the above 