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Acting-Master R. C. Miller, was actively engaged, and performed
some good service, as appears by the following despatches from
Sir Charles Napier and the officer in command of the troops
embarked on board the steamer :—
Extract of a letter from Sir Charles Napier, dated Hyderabad,
the 30th of May, 1843 :—
" As Shere Mahomed found that he could not recruit his troops
in Scinde, he resolved to draw reinforcements from the moun
tains of Beloochistan ; I therefore sent Lieutenant Anderson, of
the 1st European Regiment, with a steamer and one hundred
men, to destroy the boats collected on the right bank for the
Belooches of Sukkur to cross over to Scinde, This officer has
performed his duty in a brilliant manner, and he speaks highly
of the way in which Master Miller of the steamer manoeuvred
his vessel. The rumour of this skirmish in Beloochistan will
have good effect in Scinde."
The following is Lieutenant Anderson's letter to Sir Charles
Napier's Military Secretary :—
" Above the Luckie Pass, 27th May, 1843.
" Sir,—I had the honour to inform his Excellency, Sir Charles
Napier, K.C.B., Governor of Scinde, this morning, that I had
expectations of finding some five hundred Belooches of Meer
Shah Mahomed assembled below the Luckie Pass, to give us
fight on our arrival there. When we came in shore, the
Belooches fired into the steamer, and, to judge from their fire,
they must have been three hundred or three hundred and fifty
strong. The steamer immediately returned their fire, doing
some warm execution. We then ran down, and landed the
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. of the 25th Regiment, who chased the enemy out of
their strong position, and drove them up the steeps beyond.
It being useless to pursue them any further, the 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. returned
leisurely on board, after having killed and wounded about ten
of them. During the skirmish the steamer kept up a splendid
fire of grape and round shot at the retreating Belooches, killing
and wounding, it is supposed, forty men. Mr. Lowry received
a slight wound leading on his men, and two 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. were killed
and seven wounded carrying the heights. On board the steamer
Captain Miller received a slight wound, and two European
sailors and one stoker were severely wounded. I must beg to
express my thanks to all parties for their activity during the
affair, which lasted altogether three hours, from one to four p.m.
of this day."
On the 9th of March the Hon. Company's corvette ' Coote,
Commander H. B. Lynch, sailed for Kurrachee with troops, and,
on the 26th of March, proceeded to Bombay with Hussein Ali
Khan, one of the Ameers captured at Meanee, and two of his
cousins, with a retinue of thirty-two persons. No better selec-
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