"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الجزء II. ج. ج. لوريمر. ١٩١٥" [‎٢‎٠‎١‎٩] (١٢٦٢/٥٣٦)

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of the Indian Navy, which formed a very important and even
of the armanent of the expedition.
1 Yltf 2n(l Division, formed as soon as ^ was seen that more troops
N would be required in Persia, was organised on the 10th January 1857
I comprised the following units : the King's 14th Light Dragoons
^ the Isfc Sind Irregular Horse; a troop of Horse Artillery and one or
Highlanders, 23rd and 26th
more Light Field Batteries ; the 78th
(Bombay) Native Infantry, and a composite Light Infantry Battalion
• 6111 formed of a company with three European officers from each of the Native
^ j Regiments of the Bombay Army. The 2nd Division partly reached
e rehisji jy gcene 0 f operations at the beginning of February 1857 ; but the
ersia ) 4f arr j va | 0 f a portion of it, mostly cavalry, was unfortunately delayed till
'died in In! f
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much later.
The general command in Persia was held until Sir J. Outranks arrival
by Major-General F. Stalker, who thereafter commanded the 1st Division
uutil his death in March 1857. The 2nd Division was given to
Brigadier-General * Henry Havelock ; and General Stalkers successor in
the command of the 1st Division was Brigadier-General John Jacob,t
who arrived on the very day of his decease. General Jacob, like Sir J.
ill
Outram, who had a high opinion of his capacity, was a political as well
as a military officer, and had been employed for a number of years in the
inej w; j . •, o a- i
' < D administration or Smd.
ittalion;
alstrenrfW ^ ^utram^s plans for the campaign which he was to conduct were
begun in England, on such information as he could obtain there ; and on
the voyage out he drew up a tentative scheme of operations, which he
scorted Iji ^ orwar ded from Aden to the military authorities in India. Unfortunately
tbe information that had been supplied to him was misleading, as later
experience showed ; it erred in underestimating the number of troops which
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*^1'H. Havelock (1795—1857) served as a Captain in the 13tli Light Infantry.
^ e ^ came a ^ a ptist. He was A. D. C. to Sir W. Cotton at Ghazni in the first Afghan
^ ar an ^ afterwards served in the Maratha and Sikh campaigns. In 1854 he was Adju-
J J j 1 | { |P"^ e,iera ^ ' m I^dia. He died of dysentery at Lucknow in November 1857, and his
e k# H p me ^ n0W ^ eS ^ nown conneG ^ on 0 P 3ra ti® a s there during the Mutiny.
firsts ^ son rece ived a baronetcy t^at had been intended for him, and his widow was
principaln ^ a pension.
^^ eileia l J . Jacob (1812—58) belonged to the Bombay Artillery and served under
',1 'Keanein the first Afghan War. His organisation and administration of the
The British
scheme of
operations.
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of Infe
»» Cilice of Sind
,otll »lWn fever,
nust fa T! l{ ' ^ his
gave him a high reputation ; but his premature death, from over-
prevented his attai ning the wider fame which those acquainted
remarkable and forceful personality augured for him.