Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Errors, when reasonably attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details. Corrections made to the text are summarized there. Footnotes have been resequenced to be unique across the book, and have been gathered at the end of each chapter. The illustrations have been moved to avoid falling within a paragraph. The captions will appear here as [Illustration: <caption>]. A large map and accompanying legend was bound as a fold-out inside the end cover. The Reference, included in that image is presented here, and contains a daily location of the unit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LUMSDEN’S HORSE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: D.M. Lumsden.] THE HISTORY OF LUMSDEN’S HORSE A COMPLETE RECORD OF THE CORPS FROM ITS FORMATION TO ITS DISBANDMENT EDITED BY HENRY H.S. PEARSE (WAR CORRESPONDENT) AUTHOR OF ‘FOUR MONTHS BESIEGED—THE STORY OF LADYSMITH’ ETC. WITH MANY PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 1903 [All rights reserved] PREFACE Although this History of Lumsden’s Horse embraces a period in the South African campaign that was crowded with great issues, it makes no pretence to rank among the many able and comprehensive works dealing with those events. Elaborate descriptions and criticisms of operations as a whole have been purposely avoided, except so far as they serve to explain and emphasise actions in which the corps took part. First of all, the book is intended to be no more than a regimental record, enlivened by the personal experiences of men who helped to make history at a time when the whole British Empire was moved by one impulse. India’s part in that movement is the inspiring theme, and one object has been to show how the idea of organising an Indian Volunteer Contingent for service in South Africa passed from inception to accomplishment, through the efforts of a Committee in Calcutta which made itself responsible for every financial liability in connection with the corps from its formation to its disbandment.