OR,

SERVICE IN THE GUARDS AND THE LINE

DURING

ENGLAND'S LONG PEACE AND LITTLE WARS.

BY

COLONEL ELERS NAPIER,

"WILD SPORTS

""PAST AND FUTURE EMIGRATION,'
SOUTHERN AFRICA,
IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA, ""SUGGESTIVE REMARKS ON THE
KAFFIR WAR," ETC. ETC.

AUTHOR OF

"And your Memorialists most humbly beseech your Majesty, that if the returns
and details submitted to your Majesty in this Memorial are found accurate in them-
selves, and justify the conclusions they have pointed out as resulting from them, the
Officers of the Guards may be placed in a position which will rectify the disparity
now established to their prejudice, and give them a fair chance of arriving at the
great object of the soldier's ambition, the post of command, AS RAPIDLY AS THEIR
COMRADES OF THE LINE-in a position, in short, which will put them upon A FOOT-
ING OF EQUALITY with the remainder of your Majesty's service."-Conclusion of the
"Memorial of the Guards," dated August 17, 1855.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

GEORGE W. HYDE, PUBLISHER, 13 PATERNOSTER ROW.

1856.

249. W, 333,

LONDON:

Printed by G. BARCLAY, Castle St. Leicester Sq.

XIV. CONSISTING OF AN ANALYSIS OF THE

“MEMORIAL OF THE GUARDS," THEIR

GRIEVANCES AND WRONGS; WITH SUN-

DRY ANACHRONISMS OUT OF ALL SEASON

AND ALL DATE-A CHAPTER, IN SHORT,

WHICH THE NON-MILITARY READER HAD

BETTER FAR ESCHEW

254

302

323

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XVII. THE SENIOR DEPARTMENT AT SANDHURST . 344

APPENDIX No. I. TO CHAPTER XIV.-FATE OF THE

P. 67, line 7 from top, add, "or Kars have been allowed to fall ?"

THE LINESMAN.

CHAPTER I.

CANTONMENT LIFE IN INDIA; ALSO A FEW
WORDS OF ADVICE.

66

'My blessing on thee,

And these few counsels in thy memory cherish."

Hamlet.

THE detachment with which I had joined head-quarters was a large one, both as regarded officers and men, and the reception we met with on the occasion was friendly and cordial in the extreme; every one endeavouring to make us comfortable and perfectly at home; for such, to the credit of the service, is the feeling usually evinced in the British army, whose members are, generally speaking, on the most brotherly and best of terms.