Note 51 — Chapter III
Reading edition
Extract from the Despatches of General Wilson on the Fall of Delhi.
"Delhi, Sept. 22d, 1857.
"I beg also to bring very favorably to notice the officers of the Quartermaster-General's Department, ... and Captain Hodson, who has performed such good and gallant service with his newly raised regiment of Irregular Horse, and at the same time conducted the duties of the Intelligence Department, under the orders of the Quartermaster-General, with rare ability and success."