. Forty-one years in India : from subaltern to commander-in-chief . ay. The force was divided into three columns. The first andsecond—consisting of about 4,800 men, and commandedrespectively by Colonel W. Turner, ,* and Lieutenant-Colonel Wilde, —were to form the attacking party,while the third, about 3,000 strong, under the command ofLieutenant-Colonel Vaughan,t was to be left for the pro-tection of the camp. At daybreak, on the 15th, the troops for the advance,unencumbered by tents or baggage, and each man carryingtwo days rations, assembled at the base of the Cragpiquet. Turner, an

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. Forty-one years in India : from subaltern to commander-in-chief . ay. The force was divided into three columns. The first andsecond—consisting of about 4,800 men, and commandedrespectively by Colonel W. Turner, ,* and Lieutenant-Colonel Wilde, —were to form the attacking party,while the third, about 3,000 strong, under the command ofLieutenant-Colonel Vaughan,t was to be left for the pro-tection of the camp. At daybreak, on the 15th, the troops for the advance,unencumbered by tents or baggage, and each man carryingtwo days rations, assembled at the base of the Cragpiquet. Turner, an excellent officer, who during the shorttime he had been at Umbeyla had inspired great confidenceby his soldierly qualities, had on the previous after-noon reconnoitred to the right of the camp, and had dis-covered that about 4,000 men were holding the village ofLalu, from which it was necessary to dislodge them beforeUmbeyla could be attacked. On being told to advance, * The late Brigadier-General Sir W. W. Turner, General Sir T. L. Vaughan, mm. m

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