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THE INDIAN CAMPAIGNS, 1897-8. 
the British posts on the Samana Range and overflowed into the peace¬ 
ful Miranzai valley, finally capturing the post of Saragarhi and 
making a desperate attempt to carry the larger fort of Gulistan. 
Three batteries actually took part in the first attempts to withstand 
the rising. A section of No. 6 Bombay Mountain Battery forming part 
of the force at Maizar, losing Captain Brown and Lieut. Cruickshank 
killed, five rank and file killed and wounded, and eight mules killed 
and finally fought its way out with the greatest coolness and resource. 
No. 8 Bengal Mountain Battery formed part of the Malakand 
garrison and was constantly in action day and night for several days, 
losing Lieut. Wynter, (then commanding) wounded and several rank and 
file killed and wounded (lor detail vide Battery’s services). 
Four guns of the 51st Field Battery, R.A. formed part of the force 
that pushed hurriedly out of Peshawur, to repulse the Mohmand in¬ 
road at Shabkadr, under command of Captain Blacker, the only officer 
present with the battery. He and two sergeants were severely 
wounded, Sergt.-Major Wallman taking command and bringing the 
battery out of action. The ground being very much intersected 
with nullahs, the battery had great difficulty in getting its guns into 
action, and the enemy’s marksmen were able to creep close in to the 
guns amongst the broken ground. 
After the Maizar outbreak in Waziristan, then deemed a solitary 
instance of fanaticism and treachery, two brigades commanded by 
Major-General Corrie Bird, c.b., entered Waziristan, the batteries 
with this force being No. 3 Peshawur Mountain Battery and No. 6 
Bombay Mountain Battery. This expedition met with little subse¬ 
quent fighting but spent ten weary months in very barren hills, 
harassed by an evasive enemy and subject to unaccountable prevalence 
of dysentery and typhoid, the force being of necessity maintained in 
the country to prevent the Waziris joining the Afridi rebellion. 
As soon as news of the Malakand outbreak reached head¬ 
quarters relief was instantly despatched, but it had hardly started 
ere outbreak after outbreak, everywhere least expected, occurred, 
and all order and organization was lost for the moment, in 
the absolute necessity of putting the nearest available troops 
into the weakest Bpots. Regiment after regiment, battery after 
battery hurried up by rail, to dis-entrain and spend a day at 
one place only to be hurried off, no one knew where, to meet some 
fresh inroad. There was not even time to mobilize batteries ere they 
left, and cart-loads of mobilization stores were often picked up pell- 
mell at a railway station en route to be assimilated as best they might 
on arrival. Batteries would start (it was the height of the leave 
season) with perhaps one officer, while strange officers joined at 
stations en route, to do duty till those on leave could rejoin. Nothing 
could be more exciting than the constant whirl of troops stores, 
and transport up a single line of rail for three points, Kushalgarh, 
Peshawur, and Nowshera whence the roads left for the front. 60,000 
men were in front, many were yet unmobilized, all had to be fed, and 
