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APPENDIX C. 



In his ' Eecollections of a Highland Subaltern ' (E. Arnold, 

 1898), Lieut.-Colonel W. Gordon- Alexander gives the follow- 

 ing trustworthy account of what happened just after the 

 storming of the Begam's Palace : — 



" As I turned round again towards the breach, I noticed 

 two officers, whom I took to be on the staff, clambering 

 over it, and when they reached the bottom on the inside, 

 proceed arm-in-arm to skirt the wall of the platform on 

 which the mosque stood, and, merely glancing at the firing 

 going on in our corner, make for the passage or lane which 

 led to their right. Believing that this lane was bordered 

 by rooms harbouring desperate fellows in concealment, 

 similar to those at the gateway we were then dealing 

 with, I called to a man of my company below to run 

 towards these two officers, one of whom I had just recog- 

 nised as Hodson of Hodson's Horse, and warn them to 

 be careful. As I was descending the ladder to terra firma 

 a tremendous explosion made me pause and turn round, to 

 witness what was evidently the explosion of the large mine 

 at the breach where the right wing had entered. . . . 



" The man I had sent across the court to warn Hodson 

 was the ' funny man ' of No. 6 company, called John 

 Dougherty, a Glasgow Irishman. ... As there was no 

 further need for me in that corner, and my men of No. 

 6 company were only hanging about waiting for the sepoys 

 penned into the gateway (B in plan) to be blown up, I 

 called out to them, when I had descended the ladder, to 

 follow me, and doubled across the courtyard after Hodson 

 and his friend. Dougherty, unfortunately, did not catch 



