DETAILS. 3

Each detachment was to consist of 2 officers,

2 sergeants, 2 corporals, i bugler (or trumpeter), and

38 men. The " Heavies" numbered 10 detachments,

from the ist and 2nd Life Guards, Blues, Bays,

4th and 5th Dragoon Guards, Royals, Scots Greys,

5th and i6th Lancers : total, 23 officers and 431 men.

The "Lights," from the 3rd, 4th, 7th, loth, nth,

1 5th, 1 8th, 2Oth, and 2ist Hussars, numbered (9 de-

tachments) 21 officers and 388 men. The Guards

numbered 7 detachments, from the ist, 2nd, and 3rd

battalions Grenadiers, ist and 2nd Coldstream, and ist

and 2nd Scots Guards : total, 17 officers and 302 men.

Each of these divisions, Heavies, Lights, and Guards,

had (included above) a staff of Commanding Officer,

Adjutant and Quartermaster, and Surgeon. The grand

total that left England was therefore 61 officers and

1 12 1 men. The men had all to be marksmen, or

first-class shots, twenty-two years old at least, of

course medically fit, and of as good character as

possible. In fact, they were as good men as could be

got anywhere, and a finer shipload than those on

board the Deccan never left England. The Mounted

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