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INDEX
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    Ranks and titles are generally the highest mentioned in the text
    Abbot, General Sir James 199, 202–3
    Abbotabad 203
    Abdurrahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan 86
    Adams, RevdJ. W., VC 467
    Addiscombe Military Seminary 214, 250, 253
    Aden 187
    adjutant birds, trick practised on 166–7
    adjutants 219
    Adlercron, Colonel 182
    Afghan artillery 355
    Afghan Wars
    First (1839–42) 55–9, 85
    Second (1878–80) 82, 85–6
    Afghanistan, barrier against Russian expansion 59
    Agg, Lieutenant James 220
    Agnew, Patrick Alexander Vans 66, 67
    Agra 38, 39, 276
    barracks 143–4
    Agra Tent Club 168
    Ahmed Shah Durrani, Amir of Afghanistan 54
    Ahmednagar, capture (1803) 312, 376
    Akbar, Mughal emperor 28, 36, 39, 40
    Akbar Khan 56, 57, 58, 397
    Ala-ud-din Khalji, Sultan of Delhi 36
    Aligarh, capture (1803) 310
    Aliwal, battle (1846) 5, 65, 367–8, 416, 499
    Allahabad 139, 316
    Allard, Jean François 62, 306
    Allen, Major 478–9
    allowances 72, 272–3
    Amboina massacre (1623) 45, 46
    ammunition, artillery 337–40
    canister 337, 340
    common shell 338
    grapeshot 340
    roundshot 337, 338, 339–40
    shrapnel shells 337, 338
    spherical case 337
    amputations 403, 404
    Ananti Ram 260
    Anderson, Lieutenant William 66, 67
    Andrews, Lieutenant Thomas 243
    Andrews, Sub-Conductor William 238
    Anglo-Indians xxvi–xxvii
    Anson, General the Hon. George 74–5, 473
    Anson, Major Octavius 76–7, 148, 420, 465
    Anti-Opium Society 435
    apartheid attitudes, development of 72
    Arcot 47
    Arcot, Nawab of 50, 51
    Argaum, battle (1803) 55, 333
    Army Bearer Corps 257
    Army of the Deccan (1817–18) 274, 281
    Army of the Indus 55–6, 377–9
    Army of Retribution 58
    Army Temperance Association 434
    arrack 417, 418
    artillery, British
    breaching batteries 381
    counter-battery role 336
    organisation 220
    artillery, British – cont.
    siege batteries, on parade 382–3
    siege trains 381–2
    see also horse artillery; Royal Artillery
    artillery fire, advances under 342–3, 345–6
    artillery, Indian 337
    Afghan 355
    Maratha 333
    Mysore 332–3
    Sikh 8–9, 333
    Assaye, battle (1803) 55, 294, 311, 321, 328, 333, 336–7, 364, 402, 499–500
    Aston, Colonel Henry Hervey 161, 225, 478–9
    Atkins, Richard Riley 427
    attitudes, British
    offensive towards Indians 452–4
    tranformation of 445–9
    Attock 205
    bridge across Indus at 26–7, 196
    Auckland, George Eden, 1st Earl of [Governor General, 1836–42] 55, 58, 59, 61
    Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor 39–40
    Avitabile, Paolo di 62, 306–7
    Ayub Khan, governor of Herat 86, 354
    Aziz Khan, Subadar Major 299
    Babur (Zahir-ud-din Muhammad) 38–9
    Badli ke Serai, battle (1857) xxxii, 75, 230, 337–8, 341, 345–6, 353
    Bahadur Shah II, King of Delhi 43, 74, 77
    Baird, Major General Sir David 278, 386–7
    Baji Rao II, Maratha Peshwa 71
    Bancroft, Staff Sergeant Nathaniel W. 8, 10, 18, 130, 138–9, 235, 265, 294–325. 334. 340. 409, 418
    bandmasters 137
    bands, regimental 136–7, 145
    Bangalore 140, 374
    Banks, Sir Joseph 448–9
    Banks, Major