A monumental report giving every conceivable detail of information down to dress, composition of various guards and escorts, compliments ot the King Emperor and Viceroy, etc, organisation of tents, hiring of camels [2,600 camels for over 12,000 carts. Everything is an=o a huge scale: there were around 20,000 British troops involved and 40,000 Indian. This work seldom appears and even less often with all the maps and plans We have seen a copy of the large plan alone for sale for several hundred pounds.
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