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Pw H 287/1-3 : Letter from Lord W.H. Cavendish Bentinck, Camp Bahadaghur [Bahadurpur], India, to [W.H.C. Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck] 4th Duke of Portland, Cavendish Square, London; 4 Dec. 1831 (Pw H 287/1-3)

disappears. In Lord
Hastings' army, it
remained only three
marches, but those
three marches occu-
pied nine days, each
march taking three
days to give time for
the spare carts of the
army to return and
to bring up the sick.
There was a general
feeling in the Army
that when it reached
a running stream at
the end of its third
march, the cholera


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