Excerpt from Dan to Beersheba: Work and Travel in Four Continents After their Continental trip my father and mother returned to London where my sister Helen was born; and as soon as she was Old enough to travel they went to Scotland and chose a good school for their elder children before returning to India. It seemed to my father that the time had come when Misses Agnes and Janet, now big and handsome girls - Agnes real beauty - ought to be turned into young ladies and given a polite education. The school selected was the Misses H.' s of Glasgow, both then and later a fashionable seminary. While their children were absorbed in their own little griefs and pleasures the parents were going through a most trying time. They got back to India in January, 1845, and almost immediately the Sikh war broke out, and the 43rd, which my father had rejoined, went Once more to the front. With this regiment and with the 23rd he was through several engage ments. At Ferozeshah the Sikhs were attacking, and here the heroic George Broadfoot was killed. My father's horse was shot under him, and he lost a button Off his tunic and had a bullet through his helmet; but then as ever, he escaped with out a wound, being said by his comrades to bear a charmed life. Victory wavered from one side to another, and the vic tors lost one-seventh of their numbers and were too exhausted to prevent the Sikhs from crossing the Sutlej and preparing for fresh operations. It was a critical moment in Indian his tory. The victory of Aliwal followed, and then, on February 10, Sobraon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.