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'History of the Indian Navy. (1613-1863).' [‎219] (238/622)

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HISTORT OP THE INDIAN NAVT.
219
field, and assisted me greatly in carrying orders—poor Christo
pher, of the Indian Navy, whose zeal proved fatal to him so
shortly after. On this occasion he rode about with a long sea
telescope under his arm, just as composedly as if he had been
on the deck of his own vessel."
The siege operations were commenced at daylight of the 7th
of September, by working parties of one thousand men from the
irregulars, and sixteen hundred men from the British camp.
On the night of the 9th, it became necessary to dislodge the
enemy from a position they had taken up among some houses
and gardens in front of the trenches, and Colonel Pattoun, of
the 32nd Regiment, conducted the attack with four companies
of H.M.'s 10th Regiment, a wing of the 49th Regiment N.L,
the Rifle company of the 72nd Regiment N.L, and two of Van
Cortlandt's horse artillery guns. Notwithstanding the display
of the greatest gallantry, the attack ended in failure, " owing,"
says Major Siddons, of the Bengal Engineers, in his "Journal
of the Siege of Mooltan/' «to ignorance of the localities, and
the darkness and confusion consequent on a hastily planned
night attack." The British column was driven back with
heavy loss, the 10th and 49th having one hundred and twenty
men placed hors de combat. Among the oflScers wounded was
Lieutenant Christopher, and we cannot give a better account of
the circumstances under which he received a wound that proved
fatal, than in the words of Sir Herbert Edwardes:—" Captain
Christopher, of the Indian Navy, had, from his first arrival
with the steamers at Mooltan, shown the usual willingness of
his profession to co-operate with his brother officers on shore.
On the night in question, he had once already conducted some
reinforcements to Colonel Pattoun's assistance; but the fighting
at the outposts still raged with unabated fury. Another re
inforcement came up, but had no guide. ' Will no one show us
the way f asked the ofiicer of the partv, looking round on the
tired occupants of the trenches. 'I will,' replied Christopher,
and, putting himself at their head, steered them with the steadi
ness of a pilot through ditches and gardens, under a roaring
nre of musketry. A ball hit him in the ankle, and shivered
the joint to pieces. A few weeks later, he was borne by the
grateful British soldiers to a rude grave beside a well,
near the village of Sooraj Khoond, and I myself read the
service over him. A better or braver man fell not beneath
the walls of Mooltan."
The surgeons, in examining the wound received bv Christo
pher while conducting the detachment, of the 10th Regiment,
tound it necessary to amputate the limb, but mortification set
in, and a second operation became necessary. This, however,
proved of no avail to save his life, and, after a period of terrible
Buttering, delirium supervened, and, on the 8th of October, he

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History of the Indian Navy. (1613-1863).

Author: Charles Rathbone Low.

Publication Details: London: Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington Street.

Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-vi); octavo.

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1 volume (575 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter.

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