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8 Bengal " "
No.5 Company Madras Sappers and Miners.
No.3 " Bombay " " "
Section B of No.13 British Field Hospital.
Sections A and B of No.35 Native Field Hospital.
Line of Communications.
No.34 Native Field Hospital.
Section B of No.1 Native Field Hospital.

[This complete division amounted to a total available field strength of
6800 bayonets, 700 lances or sabres, with 24 guns.]
The command of this powerful force was entrusted to Brigadier-General
Sir Bindon Blood, K.C.B., who was granted the local rank of Major-
General.
As this officer is the principal character in the tale I have to tell, a
digression is necessary to introduce him to the reader. Born of an old
Irish family, a clan that has been settled in the west of Ireland for
300 years, and of which he is now the head, Sir Bindon Blood was
educated privately, and at the Indian Military College at Addiscombe,
and obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers in December, 1860.


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