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CHAPTER XIV.
THE HOME OF THE GUIDES.
A camp to start with--The Five Star Fort--On the borders of
Yaghistan--After the mutiny--The bastions--Godby cut down--The
mess--The garden--The old graveyard--The Kabul memorial--Ommanney's
assassination--The names of roads--Old leaders--The
farm--Polo-grounds--Church--Daily life--Sport--Hawking--Climate--A
happy home 185
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Sir Harry Lumsden, who raised the Guides,
from a portrait made when he was
commanding the corps _Front_.
Afridis on the war-path _To face page_ 8
Ressaldar Fatteh Khan, Khuttuk, who at
the head of seventy men of the Guides'
Cavalry defeated and drove into
Mooltan a Brigade of Sikh Cavalry,
from a picture by W. Carpenter. By
kind permission of General Sir Peter
Lumsden, G.C.B. " 24
A Picquet of the Guides' Infantry
bivouacking " 40
A Scout of the Guides' Cavalry warning
his Infantry Comrades. The small man
on the right is a Gurkha " 70
A non-commissioned officer of the Guides'
Infantry " 80
An Afridi of the Guides' Infantry " 92
The Memorial Arch and Tank to the memory
of Sir Louis Cavignari and the officers
and non-commissioned officers and men
of the Guides killed in the defence of
the Kabul Residency, September 3, 1879.
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