HLI Chronicle 1909 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

HI(;HLAND LIGHT----------GoycrnJllent- lllLtil Sir Culin C~I rIlp hnl! cO llldrotllm, With this (',llIJl}J arativ(!ly ~lna.1l foreeOutl'a III held ,I lille uf 10 wile.s, his fronthein" from Jallala.bacl [ott,tJuongh lurn Dngh,t o a \rilla '-e rathl~l' more than a lIlile W" tlt uEthe latter. .-\1:1 he was liahie to attack fromall ~ id ~s. this line hacL tu ho co ntinued OH hiHflall k :wC[ l'e,I1', 'rhis pOHit ion Ollt:ralll helliagaiust I:OH, t :lllt attnch wl.t.il the b ginninglJ [ !lfatch, 18:58. an! the nature of hiH bll:1kllIar 1)0 partly app reciated when it j' COII­'jdcrcd tl1 1 d 1l1'i ll ~ thiti period the tl'cllrrthof tlte OIlClllY ill Luel.:no\\' was computed at(l;),O(lO lIepnyl.l. n the ~Ild o f 3[a.rcit, 1858,, iT Col ul IIgain a1'1'ived hefore Lllcknow, and,lll:L!'eli.iUg till' JUgh OutT: m'. positiult, oee upieutho Dilku,lla and i'l1allODl od agh, drivingthe eHu m.\' Ullt without mueh opposition,By the 4tlL .lal'e h the whole of Sir Colin'sarmy ,'us eOllCelltl'[Lt e(L- f he large~t Bri tishJOl'(,(!, '.,"illt oue ClI.(' ptilHl, that h a d ever beenUl;se mbl!~d in India, I t. cOJl!;isted ot 2-,000men and Hl2 ?(l1 flS, The B rit i,,/t po ~ itj II llOWstl'etdled from th v illage of Bibia]JlII', tllrollgitDillnH;lut Park allu the ~Ia hunll'd Bagh,t owards .T labba L on the kft, hnt short, oftl, lLt, post b r a hout two lllih~!!. The iuterva l,,'a .filled hy H udso n's H orse, and Out-ram'!!IN FAN1'ItY CI"m UN ICLE. j fi 7old front, from .Tolalabad to A.lum Bagh, washeld hy t.wu infant!', l'ogimentH. A ~tl'ongbrigade of G[walI'Y and 1I01'se a,rtiJlor.v 8eelll'etlthe extreme left a nd swept the eonntTytowlIrds the IWl't h-\\"ll 't .Efl)'l.\' 011 the 1l.101'llillg of tllC 6th of ;\'laTchOlltralll'S divi.-;ioll, co nsist.ing of two iwigaLleo [ t.ll1'l'.e battalions eaeh,t 11'0 cU v::dr reg lllHlllts,and ,lebilti, bl: