in Hindustani, “This gun belongs to _my_ regiment,
2nd Ghoorkas, Prince of Wales’s!” The loss was only 46 killed and 202
wounded.

With the battle of “Baba Wali,” or “Candahar,” all opposition ceased,
and the British troops returned to India. Quettah and Lundi Kotal in
the two main passes were garrisoned, and the former has, since the war,
been strongly fortified, while a railway has been constructed to unite
this advanced post with the Indian railway system.

Medals, with clasps, were given for Ali-Musjid, Peiwar Kotal, Cabul
1879, Charasiah, Candahar 1880, Afghanistan 1878 to 1880, and Ahmed
Kehl; while all those who took part in the 318-mile march from Cabul
received a bronze star supported by a rainbow-hued ribbon, as did those
who participated in the first Afghan war thirty years before.

Since the annexation of the Punjab, and between 1849 and 1881, no
less than forty-four expeditions have been undertaken against the
hill people, and since then there have been other minor disturbances
in Sikkim, Waziristan, on the Black Mountain, Manipur, and elsewhere.
Finally, the British army, native and European, has brought to a
successful conclusion the expedition for the relief of Chitral, which
has shown, by the rapidity and secrecy of its mobilisation, and the
skilful conduct of this last “little war,” the preparedness of the army
in India for the work it may have eventually to perform, on a larger
scale even than that of the last Afghan campaign.

Notwithstanding the difficulty of mobilising an Indian army widely
dispersed, and with often indifferent means of intercommunication,
the first division received the order on the 19th March, and was
fully mobilised by the 1st April. The men carried but ten pounds
weight of kit, and the officers forty, and there were no tents; yet,
notwithstanding, 28,000 pack animals were required for this limited
transport. The relief of Chitral, in the fort of which a small British
force, with the British agent, Surgeon-Major Robertson, was besieged
by a native rising