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THE MUTINY AT INDORE
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2. In reply, I am directed by the Governor-General in Council to state that your conduct calls for commendation. In a position of much difficulty and uncertainty, you have discharged the duties which fell to you with excellent judgment.
3. His Lordship in Council appreciates the courage with which you assumed responsi. bility that was new to you, as well as the tact and discretion which secured a generally successful result to your proceedings.
I have etc.,
(Signed) R. Simson,
Offg. Under-Secretary to the Govt. of India. Fort William, 10th August, 1857.
No. 941. Adjutant-General's Office, Head-Quarters.
Calcutta, 12th October 1857. SIR,
I have the honour, by direction of the Commander-in-chief, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 641, of the 20th ultimo, with copies of documents enclosed therein, and to express the satisfaction with which His Excellency views the judgment and decision which have marked your conduct, and so deservedly called forth the recorded approbation both of the Government of India and that of Bombay, in which Sir Colin Campbell very cordially concurs.
I have etc., (Signed) W. Mayhew, Major,
Deputy Adjutant-General of the Army. Captain Hungerford, Bengal Artillery, Mhow.
No. 114-A.
To Captain T. Hungerford, Comg. 2nd Com. 6th Battalion Bengal Artillery, and No. 8 Light Field Battery, Mhow.
Camp, Cawnpore, 12th February 1858.
Office of Assistant Adjutant-General, Artillery. SIR,
I have had the honour to receive and lay before the Major-General commanding the regiment your letters Nos. 486 and 487 of the 8th ultimo, with their several enclosures : the former relative to the outbreak of the native troops of the Bengal army at Mhow, and those of the Maharaja at Indore in July last, and the measures you took in consequence; the latter detailing the part taken by the battery under your command in the operations against the Fort of Dhar in October last.
2. Sir Archdale Wilson, in reply, has directed me to inform you that he has perused these documents with pride and pleasure, testifying as they do to the judgment and determination with which you took upon yourself and exercised at a very critical period, the political functions of the Resident at Holkar's Court, and the vigour and professional ability with which your conduct was marked in the exercise of the military command at Mhow, and he trusts that the services you rendered to the State, of which such important results were the consequence, will meet with their just and appropriate reward.
3. It is a subject also of much pride and gratification to the Major-General to find how honourably the name and reputation of the regiment has been sustained by the company and battery under your command, under the very trying circumstances in which you have been placed; and he desires you will communicate these segtiments to all concerned, and
