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OUR ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY.
congratulation to offer, each in his own style, on the restoration of his colonel's wife and daughter; and then my highly-wrought feelings found the desired relief, and I could scarcely speak to thank the soldiers for their sympathy, whilst the long-withheld tears now found their course. On arriving at the camp, Captain Backhouse fired a royal salute from his mountain-train guns; and not only our old friends, but all the officers of the party, came to offer congratulations, and welcome our return from captivity."[1]
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The total number of all who were released on this occasion was one hundred and twenty-two, of whom nine
- ↑ Lady Sale's Memoirs.