CHAPTER XIX
SIR HUGH ROSE—CENTRAL INDIA—JHANSI

WITH Sir Robert Hamilton travelled an officer of
unbounded courage, indomitable energy and
will power. Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, born in
1803, was educated at Berlin, and had joined the army
in 1820. In 1837, having been promoted to the rank
of lieutenant-colonel, he was, while Consul-General in
Syria, attached as a Staff officer to the Turkish army
operating against the rebellious Pasha of Egypt.
When reconnoitring on one occasion Rose led a
picket against an Egyptian cavalry advanced guard,
and while cutting down the enemy's leader, whom he
captured, he was himself wounded in the chest and
back.

In 1853, while acting temporarily for Lord Stratford
de Redcliffe, the British Ambassador at Constantinople,
who was on leave of absence in England, Sir Hugh,
at the personal request of the Sultan, desired the
British Admiral to bring the Fleet into Turkish waters.
The Admiral declined to do so and was supported by
the British Government, but, the refusal being unknown,
the effect of the request lessened for a time the pressure
Russia was exercising on the Porte. Rose served as
Military Attach^ with the French army in the Crimea,
having two horses shot under him at the battle of
Inkerman,   and   he   was   strongly   recommended   by

Marshal Canrobert for the Victoria Cross.

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