The life of John Nicholson, soldier and administrator; based on private and hitherto unpublished documents . ourse, bad for him andprohibited, and the morphia, which was given him in largedoses, to annul pain and secure rest, soon produced a stateof stupor \ About 11 Chamberlain saw his friend again, beforehe himself returned for the night to his post of commandat Hindu Raos house. He was much the same; butfeeling his skin to be chilled, I suppose from the loss ofblood and two hand-punkahs going, I got him to consentto my covering him with a light Rampore blanket. What Wilson himself prop


The life of John Nicholson, soldier and administrator; based on private and hitherto unpublished documents . ourse, bad for him andprohibited, and the morphia, which was given him in largedoses, to annul pain and secure rest, soon produced a stateof stupor \ About 11 Chamberlain saw his friend again, beforehe himself returned for the night to his post of commandat Hindu Raos house. He was much the same; butfeeling his skin to be chilled, I suppose from the loss ofblood and two hand-punkahs going, I got him to consentto my covering him with a light Rampore blanket. What Wilson himself proposed to do on the eveningof that momentous September 14 is well-known. WhenRoberts made his report of what had really occurred, hisgeneral seemed for the time a little happier. But presently,when he learned at how heavy a cost—1,170 killed andwounded out of 5,000 engaged—a part only of that daysprogramme had been accomplished, Wilson returned tohis croaking, and talked once more about retiring to theridge. Lord Roberts thinks that he would have carried Letter to Sir Herbert Edwardes, quoted by ; Loru uauy r-u\vaiucs. DELHI AND ENVIRONS


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