A history of the Sikhs, from the origin of the nation to the battles of the Sutlej.

NOTE
In the references, and also in the text, from Chap. V to the end
of the volume, the names of military officers and civil functionaries
are quoted without any nice regard to the rank they may have held
at the particular time, or to the titles by which they may have been
subsequently distinguished. But as there is one person only of each
name to be referred to, no doubt or inconvenience can arise from this
laxity. Thus the youthful, but discreet Mr. Metcalfe of the treaty
with Ranjit Singh, and the Sir Charles Metcalfe so honourably
connected with the history of India, is the Lord Metcalfe of riper
years and approved services in another hemisphere. LieutenantColonel, or more briefly Colonel, Pottinger, is now a Major-General
and a Grand Cross of the Bath; while Mr. Clerk has been made
a knight of the same Order, and Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence has
been raised to an equal title. Captain, or Lieutenant-Colonel, or
Sir Claude Wade, mean one and the same person: and similarly the
late Sir Alexander Burnes sometimes appears as a simple lieutenant,
or as a captain, or as a lieutenant-colonel. On the other hand,
Sir David Ochterlony is referred to solely under that title, although,
when he marched to the Sutlej in 1809, he held the rank of lieutenantcolonel only.