140 Life and Times of " The Druid!' 



this side the Chenab for them to take, and 

 the enemy too strongly posted beyond the 

 nullah to be driven away by a single regi- 

 ment, has been the subject of the strongest 

 animadversion, both in his own camp at 

 Ramnugger and in all English military 

 circles. Such deaths as those of General 

 Cureton, the finest cavalry officer in India, 

 along with Colonel Havelock and many 

 gallant comrades, form a bitter commen- 

 tary on their leader's supposed rashness. 



"It seems probable that if Shere Singh can 

 fully elude the wariness of General Thack- 

 well, who has crossed the Chenab and already 

 given him a severe check, he will retire to 

 the hill country and maintain a harassing 

 guerilla warfare. Sir Charles Napier, ' own 

 brother to the devil,' as our Indian enemies 

 feelingly term him, used to hunt them most 

 successfully through a country of this nature, 

 and General Thackwell, the one-armed hero 

 of the Peninsula, will, it is thought, soon 

 earn for himself a similar title. 



"When the war is concluded, one of two 

 alternatives remains for us : either to with- 

 draw behind the Sutlej, or to annex the 



