Excerpt from The Bombay Field Force, 1880 I. On December 13th, 1879, General Roberts, in spite of his so far apparently successful attack on separate bodies of the tribesmen, on receipt of a report that the City had joined the enemy, that the cantonments were threatened, and that the control of the city was lost, ordered General Macpherson to leave a regiment on Darwaza Heights for the protection of the arsenal Bala Hissar, and then to move the remainder of his brigade into cantonments similarly General Baker was to leave a detachment on the takhti-shah, moving the remainder of his force also into Sherpur. General Roberts (though he had in the meanwhile been reinforced by the Guides Corps) also ordered the garrison at Butkak to march in, and further telegraphed for General Ch. Gough's Brigade to be sent at once to his assistance. 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.