It is with such pictures as these that I would close this chapter, pictures of courage and self-sacrifice unsurpassed in the story of our regiments. Whatever the future may hold, one thing is certain—victory must always greet men inspired by a cause that is at once noble and just. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look the land is bright. Footnote 13: _Behind the Scenes at the Front_ (Chatto & Windus), by George Adams. INDEX Abercrombie, General Sir James, 17, 20, 22, 25 Abercromby, General Sir Ralph, 66, 72, 74 Aboukir, 71, 213 Abraham, Plains of, 28, 31 Abu Hamid, 226 Acre, 71 Aisne, battle of the, 295, 297, 298 Alexandria, 73, 78 Alison, General Sir Archibald, 44, 180, 182, 184, 214 Allan, Captain, 284 Alliance, La Belle, 123 Alma, battle of the, 133. _See_ Chapter XIV. Almeida, fortress of, 93 Alost, 66 Alumbagh, the, 167 Amherst, General, 25, 28, 31 Amiens, Peace of, 79 Angus, Lance-Corporal William, 309 Anson, General, 146 Arabi Bey, 212, 216 Arcot, 57 Assaye, 61 Atbara, River, 229, 231 Austerlitz, 82 Austrian Succession, War of, 10 Badajoz, 95 Baines, Major-General, 111 Baird, Sir David, 84, 88 Baird, Major-General, 59 Baker, General, 195, 196, 198, 222 Baker, Sir Samuel, 218 Balaclava, 137 Bareilly, 175, 176 Barnard, General, 146 Becke, Captain, 115 Benson, Major, 256 Beresford, General, 91, 99, 101 Bergen-op-Zoom, 16 Berlin Treaty, 189 Bidassoa, River, 98 _Birkenhead_, the, 205, 206 Bloemfontein, 268, 269, 274, 277, 278 Blücher, Marshal, 10, 107, 112, 113 Boquet, Colonel Henry, 38, 40 Botha, General, 244, 284, 307 Boulogne, 80, 293 Bradford, Colonel, 297 Brandy Wine River, 52 Branston, Major, 165 Brest, 81 Bridley, Corporal John, 308 Brodie, Captain, 299 Brooke, Lieutenant, 299 Bruce, Captain, 259 Buchan, John, 310 Bugeaud, Marshal, 115 Buller, General Sir Redvers, 180, 264, 266, 268, 271, 273, 284 Burchill, Colonel, 305 Burgos, battle of, 97 Burgoyne, General, 53, 54 Burgoyne, Captain, 174 Burleigh, Master of, 294 Burrows, General, 200 Busaco, 92 Cadogan, Colonel, 93, 98 Calcutta, Black Hole of, 57 Cambridge, Duke of, 172 Cameron, Major-General Alan, 92 Cameron, Colonel John, 108, 109, 111, 176 Campbell, Sir Colin, 44, 97, 127-134; at Balaclava, 135-141; Lucknow, 159-177 Canning, Lord, 172 Cape Colony (added to British Empire), 205 Carnatic, Nawab of the, 61 Castile, fortress of, 95 Cato Street Conspiracy, 126