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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Hew Strachan
Hew Strachan
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Royal Military AcademySandhurst
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The Historical Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 1979, pp. 247 - 254
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1 A general essay on tactics, translated from the French of Guibert, M. by an officer (2 vols., London, 1781), I, lxviiGoogle Scholar.

2 Hart, Jenifer, ‘The genesis of the Northcote-Trevelyan Report’, in Sutherland, Gillian (ed.), Studies in the growth of nineteenth-century government (London, 1972)Google Scholar.

3 Mitchell, in United Service Journal (1838), part 1, p. 168Google Scholar; Napier, W. F. P., Life and opinions of General Sir C. J. Napier (4 vols., London, 1857), IV, 325Google Scholar.

4 For example, memorandum by General Sir Robert Gardiner for Lord John Russell on artillery, 26th Jan. 1848, Royal Archives E 42/51, pp. 5–6, in which he blames the house of commons for all the difficulties besetting the army.

5 SirKaye, John, History of the Indian mutiny of 1857–8 (6 vols. London, 1897), II, 118Google Scholar, gives 4th Lancers, but not H.M.'s. It is apparently the 4th Bengal Light Cavalry, Gimlette, G. H. D., A postcript to the records of the Indian Mutiny (London, 1927), pp. 55–7Google Scholar. The 4th Bengal Light Cavalry were equipped as lancers.

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7 The only possible exception to this is that 65 of 112 Black Watch mutineers were from clans of Jacobite or rebellious sympathies, but these sympathies were at no stage revealed by them in the course of the mutiny.

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