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57. Ibid.,passim.


58. PRO File WO/32/7483. Letter from Thomas Morely to ‘His Majesty the King’ 20
    October 1902.


59. ‘Distribution of the Victoria Cross,’Times, 26 June 1857, 7. Not everyone was happy
    with the arrangements of the day; one spectator wroteThe Timescomplaining that he
    was forced to stand behind the cavalry, where he couldn’t see and was constantly
    assailed by bursts of equine flatulence.


60. Byron Farwell,Armies of the Raj: From the Mutiny to Independence, 1858–1947, (New York: W.
    W. Norton, 1989), 26–7.


61. Ibid., p. 44.


62. PRO File WO/98/2. Draft of Warrant Amendment, dated 29 October 1857.


63. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum Mss 15012. ‘For Valour;’ Farwell,Queen
    Victoria’s Little Wars, 100.


64. PRO File WO/98/3. Letter from Lord Panmure to the President of the Board of Control,
    23 December 1857.


65. PRO File WO/32/7310, Inter-Office Memoranda, Horse Guards, Summer, 1858.


66. Farwell,Armies of the Raj, 174.


67. PRO File WO/32/7310. Interoffice Memoranda, Horse Guards, Summer, 1858.


68. Register, 135.


69. Ibid., p. 151.


70. ‘Calcutta,’Times, 27 June 1857, 9. See also ‘The Massacre at Cawnpore,’Times,2
    September 1857, 5, and ‘The Indian Mutinies,’Times, 6 October 1857, 9. These stories
    were standard features ofThe Timesfor an extended period, as the interval between the
    dates of the first story and the last indicate.


71. PRO File WO/98/3. Letter from Sir Henry Storks to Major General Sir Charles Yorke,
    23 December 1857; Letter from Sir Henry Storks to the Secretary of the Admiralty, 23
    November 1857.


72. PRO File WO/98/3. Letter from Lord Panmure to the President of the Board of Control,
    6 January 1858.


73. George Smith, ed.,The Dictionary of National Biography(London: Oxford University Press,
    1968), Entry of Edward Law, Third Baron Ellenborough.


74. PRO File WO/98/3. Letter from Sir Henry Storks to Major General Sir Charles Yorke,
    30 March 1858.


75. PRO File WO/98/3. Letter from Sir Henry Storks to Major General Sir Charles Yorke,
    31 March 1858. The communication cited in the extract, detailing the ‘rule laid down
    by Lord Panmure’ on 11 December 1857, is not included in the Victoria Cross Files held
    in PRO series WO/32 or WO/98, nor does it appear in the published correspondence
    of Lord Panmure.


76. PRO File WO/98/3. Letter from Major General Jonathan Peel to the Right Honourable
    the Lord of Ellenborough, G.C.B., 16 April 1858.


77. PRO File WO/98/3. Letter from Major General Jonathan Peel to the Right Honourable
    the Lord of Ellenborough, 16 April 1858.


78. Byron Farwell,Eminent Victorian Soldiers Seekers of Glory(New York: W. W. Norton, 1982),
    157–8;Register, 273.


79. PRO File WO/98/3. Letter from Major General Jonathan Peel to General Sir Colin
    Campbell, 17 March 1858.


80. The ‘siege, reinforcement/relief, siege, actual evacuation’ of Lucknow is a story unto
    itself and cannot be presented here.