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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
two recipients of the Indian Navy—Mr. Mayo, who, at a critical
moment, charged a loaded field-piece " twenty yards in advance
of his men," and Mr. Chicken, who killed five rebel Sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank.
with his ow 7 n hand before he himself was cut down.
The Mutiny Medal, which was very generally gained by the
Service, has, on the reverse, a figure of Victory, with a laurel
wreath in either hand, that in the right hand being extended,
and a shield on the left arm. Beside the figure is a lion.
Exergue, 1857-58. The medal, which is suspended from a
red and white striped ribbon, is inscribed with the word,
" India." The medal for the operations in China, which
began in 1857, and ended with the capture of Pekin in 1860, is
the same as that granted for the war of 1842 (with the excep
tion of the date), and clasps were given for " Canton, 1857
"Taku Forts, I860;" "Pekin, 1860 " Fatshan, 1857;" and
the "Taku Forts, 1858." The 6 Auckland,' for her services in
1857, and the Indian Navy squadron of ships engaged in 1860,
vvere awarded this medal. After the New Zealand War of 1866,
which, as far as the Maories are concerned, will probably be the
last, a medal was issued for all the operations between 1845 and
1866, to w^hich the survivors of the action atKawiti's pah, in
cluding the 'Elphinstone's ' crew, were entitled.
Medals have been granted in 1868 and 1874 for the
Abyssinian and Ashantee campaigns, and the Indian Govern
ment have very properly issued an India General Service
Medal, with clasps for the 66 North-West Frontier Region of British India bordering Afghanistan. ," "Umbeyla,"
" Bhootan," and " Looshai;" but it is not a little hard on the
survivors of the Expeditions undertaken against the Eas-ul-
Khymah pirates in 1809 and 1819, and against the Beni-Boo-
Ali Arabs in 1821, that no similar distinction has been conferred
upon them, though for these " little wars " British regiments
bear the words "Arabia" and u Beni-Boo-Ali," on their
appointments, and more lives w^ere lost in them than in
the Ashantee, Abyssinian, Looshai, and Bhootan campaigns
put together. Though we are far from subscribing to the
popular opinion that a long "butcher's bill" is the great test
of merit as to generalship, for the reverse is often the case, yet
unless there has been blundering, and in these instances none
can be attributed to the leaders, it is certainly mortifying to the
few survivors—as one of them lately told us—that they should
be denied the India General Service Medal, which is awarded to
those who were engaged in the insignificant campaign against
the Looshai tribes.
During the month of June, 1860, the 4 Punjaub,' Commander
Foulerton, visited Muscat, with Brigadier Coghlan and the
other members of the Muscat-Zanzibar Commission, which was
appointed by the Indian Government to inquire into, (and report
to the Governor of Bombay, the arbitrator,) the matter in