Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 2L SECOND PEEIOD: 1800-1850 The Mahratta War, 1803-4 -The Nepal and Pindaree Wars—The First Burmese War, 1824-26—Siege of Bhnrtpur, 1825-26—The War in Rajputana in 1834-35 and the Campaign in Afghanistan in 1838-42—The Battle of Maharajpore, 1843—The War in Scinde, 1843-44—The Sutlej and Punjab Campaign of 1845-46 and 1848-49—Augmentation of the Corps of Bengal Engineers. Biographical Notices of Lieutenant-General Richard Tickell—Major Carmichael Smyth—Colonel John Colvin—Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Irvine— Captain Joseph Davey Cunningham—Lieutenant James Sutherland Broad- foot, and Lieutenant-Colonel George Thomson. The first quarter of the nineteenth century was characterised by several important wars in India and on the Indian frontiers, and in the prosecution of these wars the officers of the Corps of Bengal Engineers took prominent parts. In the Mahratta War of 1803-4 the officers engaged were : Captain James Robertson, who entered the service in 1782, and died in Calcutta in 1831; Lieutenant Thomas Wood, who became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1819 and died in Calcutta in 1834; Lieutenant Richard Tickell, who was present at the Siege of Bhurtpur in January 1805; Ensign Robert Smith, and Lieutenant Carmichael Smyth. In the Nepal War of 1814-15, we again find the name of William Carmichael Smyth, who had by this time been promoted to the rank of Captain ; Lieutenant Peter Lawtie and Lieutenant William Morrison, who died of wounds received in action in Nepal in 1814 ; and Lieutenant Edward Garstin, who afterwards became General and Colonel-Commandant, and was the first officer of the corps appointed to the latter rank. Engaged in the Pindaree War of 1818-19 were eight officers : Lieutenant Cheape (afterwards General Sir John Cheape, G.C.B.), a notice of whose ser...