record that a perfectly orderly entry into the city was effected, and that all firing had long since ceased when, as he and the Admiral were passing through the city, some shots were fired from a private house, and that by his orders that house was set on fire. The flames spread to neighbouring buildings, and before they could be stopped the Capitol was in flames. The raid--for raid it was--was looked upon as a decided success, and Ross, who had succeeded in carrying off the greater part of the guns found in Washington, determined to carry out a similar raid on Baltimore. This, too, was successful, but it was achieved at the loss of the gallant General, who was one of the four officers who fell in the engagement outside Baltimore on September 12. The action of Bladensburg is commemorated not only on the colours of the four regiments which were present, but the family of the General were authorized by royal licence to add the word "Bladensburg" to their own name of Ross. CASUALTIES AT BLADENSBURG. +------------------------+-----------+-----+-----+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |Royal Artillery | - | - | - | 6 | |R. Engineers | - | - | 2 | - | |4th King's Own | 1 | 7 | 23 | 56 | |21st R. Scots Fusiliers | - | 2 | 2 | 11 | |44th Essex | - | - | 14 | 35 | |85th K. Shropshire L.I. | 2 | 11 | 12 | 53 | |Royal Marines | - | - | 6 | 1 | |6th West India | - | - | 1 | - | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ [Illustration: BATTLEFIELDS IN SOUTHERN INDIA] CHAPTER V INDIA, 1751-1764 Arcot--Plassey--Condore--Masulipatam--Badara--Wandewash--Pondicherry --Buxar. The names at the head of the chapter commemorate a number of long-forgotten Indian campaigns, waged against desperate odds and extending over many years. The Colar Goldfields, Dindigul Cigars, and the Nundy Droog Mine are names of pleasant memories to the fortunate shareholders in those concerns. Little did soldier or sepoy think that those fields on which he shed his blood in order to maintain British supremacy in India would thus become familiarized to British speculators. For us, their successors, it is humiliating to feel that the heroic forging of the link which connects them with the military history of our Empire should have been long since forgotten. A few words in retrospect are necessary.