CO129-049 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [1-4] — Page 166

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it may not be at my Commmes. mont, inasmucle

sake.

of perspicuity

cov

for

the..

this address aville a statement

of my past services and pr

Zosition.

I have been

and present.

present.

42 years.

in the Service of the Crown, the

whole of which lung, have passed

period.

porive a interrupered by

Foreign Service in India

and China.

My Military

Services are

well known at the Borse

Guards, and for ready informations=

011

this head I may be allowed

to refer to my

to my Memorial of Se 1846, addressed to the

then Military Berretary to Stie Grace the Commander-in-chief.

164

ed with the

I was engaged

Enemy

in

the

Nepaul

of 1814 avd (815, the Matratta War of 1817 and 1818, and the Investment and Capture of Bhartpore in 1826, where Irons slightly wounded and had the

of being particularly

Thomas.

tioned in Sir Ther

Reynell's Despatch to the then Commander in Chief Lords

Combermere..

On the breathing out of the

Chinese War, I was nominated, - without solicitation of mine,

by Sir Gasper Nicolls to the head of the stung

Staff of the Chinese expedition, as deputy adjutant Generals an appointment

avhich

intimated to me

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