|25th Cavalry | - | 1 | - | 6 | |56th Punjab R. | 1 | 1 | 8 | 32 | |57th Wilde's R. | 1 | 3 | 9 | 30 | +----------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ CENTRAL INDIA, 1857-58. The regiments authorized to bear this distinction are the 8th Hussars. 12th Lancers. 14th Hussars. 17th Lancers. Inniskilling Fusiliers. South Staffords. Sherwood Foresters. Highland Light Infantry. Seaforth Highlanders. Royal Irish Rifles. Connaught Rangers. Leinster. 30th Gordon's Horse. 31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers. 32nd Lancers. 33rd Q.O. Light Cavalry. 2nd Q.O. Sappers and Miners. 3rd Sappers and Miners. 2nd Q.O. Light Infantry. 44th Merwara Infantry. 61st Pioneers. 79th Carnatic Infantry. 96th Berar Infantry. 98th Infantry. 104th Wellesley's Rifles. 110th Mahratta L.I. 112th Infantry. 113th Infantry. 124th Baluchis. 125th Napier's Rifles. Although as a whole the Princes of Central India remained loyal to our rule, their armies threw in their lot with the mutineers, and the honour "Central India" was conferred on the regiments which were employed in stamping out rebellion in those provinces during the winter of 1857-58 and in the ensuing hot weather. A number of independent columns were so engaged, but the brunt of the fighting fell on the troops under that dashing leader Sir Hugh Rose, afterwards Lord Strathnairn. The capture of Kotah, Jhansi, Calpee, and Gwalior all bear witness to the heroism of our troops and to the sufferings they endured during that terrible hot-weather campaign of 1858, when men died of cholera and of sunstroke by hundreds, and when the survivors struggled on manfully to retain our hold on Hindustan.