Guides increased--Fatteh Khan, Khuttuk, again--The night attack--Staunchly repulsed--Thirty against two hundred--With Sir Colin Campbell--Nawadand--The enemy attack in force--A cavalry picquet--Lieutenant Hardinge to the front--His splendid charge with twenty men--Hodson of Hodson's Horse--Attack on Bori--Lieutenant Turner's predicament--Gallantry of Dr. Lyell--Hodson's charge--Celebrated spectators 39 CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF DILAWUR KHAN. Men accustomed to look after themselves--Shooting for a vacancy in the Guides--No fiddlers and washermen--Rudyard Kipling's _Bhisti_--The brave Juma decorated--Enter Dilawur Khan--A noted outlaw--Lumsden pursues him--They "talk things over"--The outlaw enlists--The goose-step--Dilawur the doctrinarian--The sinking boat--Nearly killed as a Kafir--Becomes a Christian--His last duty--A brave but pathetic end 51 CHAPTER VI. THE GREAT MARCH TO DELHI. The Mutiny of the 55th Native Infantry--Their tragic fate--The Guides start for Delhi--Daly's diary--A fight by the way--An average of twenty-seven miles a day--Arrival at Delhi--Every officer killed or wounded first day--The summer of '57--Return to the Frontier--A warm welcome--Three hundred and fifty out of six hundred left behind--Complement of officers four times over killed or wounded 65 CHAPTER VII. TWENTY YEARS OF MINOR WARS. With Sir Sidney Cotton against the Hindustani fanatics--Fierce hand to hand fighting--Dressed to meet their Lord--Against the Waziris in 1860 under Sir Neville Chamberlain--Fierce attack on the Guides' camp--Lumsden stands the shock--The charge of the five hundred--The Guides clear the camp with the bayonet--Heavy casualties--Lumsden's last fight--A story or two--Lord William Beresford--The Crag picquet--Colonel Dighton Probyn--A boat expedition--Cavignari's methods--Surprise of Sappri 76 CHAPTER VIII. THE MASSACRE OF THE GUIDES AT KABUL. The Cavignari mission--Escort of the Guides--Cordial reception--The clouds gather--Insubordination of Herati regiments--The storm bursts--Seventy men against thousands--Defence of the Residency--The fight begins--Cavignari's bravery and death--Messages to the Amir--The attempt of Shahzada Taimus--The enemy's guns arrive--The distant witness--The three officers lead a charge--Kelly's death--Another charge by Hamilton and Jenkyns--Jenkyns killed--Hamilton's last charge and heroic death--The last bright flash--Retribution 97 CHAPTER IX. THE AFGHAN WAR, 1878-80.