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the name which they never forget, and which they 

 most delight to honour, is that of Hodson's Horse." 



What more remains to say concerning this great 

 gifted soldier, who had gone through so many 

 crowded hours of glorious life during those twelve 

 years of Indian service, and had died, like his com- 

 peer Nicholson, at an age when few men have clearly 

 learned how best to realise the promise of their 

 youth ? To such a question no answer need, I think, 

 be given here. The impartial reader of this Memoir 

 will at least be able to judge for himself how far I 

 have failed or succeeded in clearing the fair fame of 

 William Hodson from the obloquy which assailed it 

 during his lifetime, and has continued to blacken 

 and disfigure it ever since his death. 



