Note 202 — CENTRAL INDIA. January to June, 1858.

Several standards were captured, together with a silk Union Jack which had been given by Lord William Bentinck to the grandfather of the Ranee’s husband, with permission to have it carried before him as a reward for his fidelity, a privilege accorded to no other Indian Prince. The soldiers who had so bravely won this flag of their country, asked permission to hoist it on the place,—a request to which Sir Hugh Rose at once acceded.