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hope that in the event of another war I may be 

 able to endure fatigue and exposure as freely as in 

 1848. ... I have no doubt that matrimony will 

 do me a power of good, and that I shall be not 

 only better, but happier, and more careless than 

 hitherto." 



Hodson had just been deeply grieved by the 

 death of Colonel Bradshaw, who had commanded 

 the 60tli Rifles in the second Sikh war. "He was 

 the heau ideal of an English soldier and gentleman, 

 and would have earned himself a name as a general 

 had he been spared. A finer and nobler spirit there 

 was not in the army. I feel it as a deep personal 

 loss, for he won my esteem and regard in no common 

 degree." 



