General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad . ilding,and the years of peace which Sind has enjoyed will behis eternal glory. They show you his great house nowtumbling in pieces: one wall of the lofty upper floorhas fallen inwards. It was raised, not to live in, butto show the unruly chiefs of Sind that they had amaster. As a reformer with the courage of his convictions, andas the most combative of controversialists, few men hadto experience more stormy times from envenomedadversaries in the Press. But when the great soldierand administrator was gone, th
General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad . ilding,and the years of peace which Sind has enjoyed will behis eternal glory. They show you his great house nowtumbling in pieces: one wall of the lofty upper floorhas fallen inwards. It was raised, not to live in, butto show the unruly chiefs of Sind that they had amaster. As a reformer with the courage of his convictions, andas the most combative of controversialists, few men hadto experience more stormy times from envenomedadversaries in the Press. But when the great soldierand administrator was gone, the leading journals werelavish of commendation. Quotations might be multi-plied, but one or two brief extracts may suffice. TheTimes began a leader with the sentence, The IndianArmy has lost a general, and the Indian service ahero. . With the single exception of Sir JamesOutram, he represented, perhaps, more vividly than anyliving soldier, that natural and inherent superiority ofpower, which, when expressed in the race instead ofthe individual, gives Englishmen the dominion over. Tkijurt-KS OF iHE 6111 ;av Cavalry, formerly Jacobs Horse.
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