General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad . ontier, in the reaction of spiritsafter the conquest, the trying service was wearing alike tomen, clothing, and horseflesh. He sympathised, and senta confidential report to headquarters, with cogent reasonsfor asking an increase of pay. At the same time thatreport gives an excellent idea of the constitution of the forcewith which he had achieved so much, after only two orthree years of very rough-and-ready training. It is long,but may be condensed in a few sentences. He hadraised two irregular regiments and
General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad . ontier, in the reaction of spiritsafter the conquest, the trying service was wearing alike tomen, clothing, and horseflesh. He sympathised, and senta confidential report to headquarters, with cogent reasonsfor asking an increase of pay. At the same time thatreport gives an excellent idea of the constitution of the forcewith which he had achieved so much, after only two orthree years of very rough-and-ready training. It is long,but may be condensed in a few sentences. He hadraised two irregular regiments and made them virtuallyregular. They had been organised to combine themobility and independence of irregulars with the solidstrength and steadiness of regulars. He had striven tomake them lit for service anywhere, and within hismeans had succeeded. But his best native officers hadbeen formed in the wild school of the Mahratta war,with the attractions of perfectly irregular service and ahigher scale of pay. Many of them in spite of oldprejudices and habits were men of much common sense,. a ^, <: D V v^ *^ O C U ^^. 70 y. •** c— k. in ?^ o V ^ ^ ,^ < O ^ -y. y. ,*J uj ii ^ ON — -t y. 00 :_) ^ i:;;;^ x: ^ ^ ?C ^ PC •n. r. .z^ k; kj Q J^ 1^ C, X ; ..^ O ^ JACOBS MILITARY FRONTIER METHODS 145 and realised the advantages of discipline, freedom fromdebt, &c., and seeing the success and honour to whichthese things lead, they have entered heart and soul intothe new order of things. But as many even of theprivates were men of family with some private means,they began to be dissatisfied. He does not hint that itwas personal attachment which kept them true to thecolours, but he implies as much when he says that we maylook in vain for a succession of such men at the presentrate of pay. That we have hitherto succeeded so wellis owing to the high character we have been so fortunateas to obtain, . . but there is a limit to this and that limitI think the Sind Horse has attained. But r
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