The 9th Bengal Cavalry, which behaved with the greatest gallantry at Meeanee, is, unfortunately, no longer represented in the Army List. The regiment was swept away in the Mutiny of 1857, and the present 9th Regiment of cavalry was raised by the immortal Hodson in 1857, whose name it bears. HYDERABAD, MARCH 24, 1843. This battle honour is borne by the Cheshires. 34th Poona Horse. 35th Scinde Horse. 36th Jacob's Horse. 2nd Queen's Own Sappers and Miners. 101st Grenadiers. 108th Infantry. 112th Infantry. 121st Pioneers. 125th Outram's Rifles. It commemorates a second victory gained by Sir Charles Napier over the Amirs of Scinde, and was fought, as the name suggests, in the immediate neighbourhood of Hyderabad, on the Indus, just one month after Meeanee. That month had been spent in fruitless negotiations. Outram, the Political Officer, thought he could induce the Amirs to accept our terms without further bloodshed. The hot weather was drawing on apace, and Napier felt there was no time for further delay. He had been reinforced by a couple of sepoy battalions from Bombay and by two field batteries from Bengal, and already some regiments were on the march from the Sutlej to support him. On March 24 he attacked the Amirs, and, though the action was a severe one, it was never for one moment in doubt. The losses in the 22nd Cheshires were sensibly higher than at Meeanee, and the 34th Poona Horse, for the second time in their history, had a fair opportunity of showing of what material they were made. They emerged from the ordeal with a reputation they have maintained to this day. CASUALTIES AT HYDERABAD. +----------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +----------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |22nd Cheshires | - | 5 | 23 | 119 | |Royal Artillery | 1 | - | - | 5 | |34th Poona H. | - | 1 | 3 | 17 | |35th Scinde H. | - | - | - | - | |36th Jacob's H. | - | - | - | - | |2nd Q.O. Sappers | - | - | - | 2 | |101st Grenadiers | - | - | 2 | 1 | |108th Infantry | - | - | 1 | 1 | |112th Infantry | - | - | 2 | 1 | |121st Pioneers | - | 2 | 4 | 22 | |125th Outram's Rifles | - | - | 3 | 23 | +----------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ The result of the campaign was the annexation of Scinde, and the perpetration of the canard that in announcing his second victory Napier telegraphed to the Governor of Bombay the one word "Peccavi." The troops were well rewarded for their short campaign. Considerable booty was found in the Amirs' palaces, and Sir Charles at last, after nearly forty years of arduous service, found himself the richer by £68,000, which was his share of the prize-money.