Labour and victory : a book of examples for those who would learn / by Alexander H. Japp.

  • Alexander Hay Japp
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Labour and victory : a book of examples for those who would learn / by Alexander H. Japp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ment could do on the plea of having fought only « civU capacity 1 His biographer says :— He believed, on what were at the time good grounds, that the rebellion would virtually collapse after the cap- ture of Dehli and relief of Lucknow, and that any sub- sequent operations would be of a desultory character, unlikely to afford any opportunity of distinction to an officer of his rank. In short, he believed that this month's campaign would, in aU probability, bring his military career to a close. He was already a G.C.B., and any additional reward m\ist necessarily assume the form of a permanent title with a pension attached. He there- fore believed he was irretrievably surrendering the cer- tainty of a baronetcy and its accompaniment. Further, it was understood that the treasure in the Eesidency, stated to be from 23 to 32 lakhs of rupees, would, in accordance with precedent, be adjudged prize-money. He elected to receive the insignificant share of a civilian volunteer, instead of the very substantial one of the General ia actual command. Thus he deprived himself 'not only of all honours, but' [we quote an allusion to the subject in a private letter of his own] * of the only means of support for the declining years of a life, the chequered vicissitudes of which have afforded no oppor- tunity of making any provision for the requirements of age.' If, in after years, the matter was mooted in his hearing, he was wont, as his custom was when his own good deeds were spoken of, to turn 'it off by some self-