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88 th Foot. Two Enfield rifles marked to the Grenadier Company 88 th Foot were recaptured during the pursuit of the rebels in 1858. 22 90 th Light Infantry. 23 93 rd Highlanders. 24 Forbes-Mitchell describes the bayonet drill used in battle with the Enfield by the 93 rd Highlanders. 95 th Foot. 1 st Madras European Fusiliers. 25 Many memoirists describe the long range of the Enfields, which often caught the enemy by surprise. They also, however, talk about the way in which the rifling frequently clogged with the soft lead from the bullets.

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22 Fanny I. Duberly, Campaigns in Rajpootana and Central India, during the Suppression of the Mutiny, 1857-1858 (London, 1859), p. 231. 23 Charles Wickens, ‘The Indian Mutiny Journal of Private Charles Wickens of the 90 th Light Infantry.’ JSAHR XXXV (1957), p. 104. 24 W Forbes-Mitchell, Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny (London, 1895), pp. 42-44, 95-98. 25 A. McK Annand (ed) ‘Indian Mutiny Letters of Lieutenant William Hargood, 1 st Madras Fusiliers.’ JSAHR XLIII (1965), p. 199.