The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-06
SIR HENRY INTELLECTUALLY.
Incidents in the Career of n Brave
and Wealthy BritOn.
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The press dispatches which repor. Sir
Henry Haveiock-Allan as dead in the north
of India campaign speak of him as having
a command which he had not. His last
command was at Aldershot, some sixteen
years ago, when he had the Highland Bril-
gade-that is, the Killed regfments-.Ninety-
eighth, Ninety-third, Ninety-second and
Eorty-second--Or such parts of them as
were in England at the time. One night he
mounted his horse in his nightshirt and
had the general call to fall in sounded, ana
charged and routed the line with billiard
cue He was not drunk, for he was tenn
perate man, but he had been having an ar
gu1nent with the Ccmmander-in-chief, the
Duke of Cambridge, in which he said Tom
my Atkins was none too brave. that ne
himself could chase "A regiment with a rid
ing whip. They smiled at this over the
mess table, but Sir Henry proved his con-
tention by driving a brigade with "a; STICK lex;
was one of the first men TO receive the
Victoria cross. His acts of personal bravery
are unnumbered, but almost 1ncred1ble but
his judgment was often at fault, and he
had no more discretion than a mad bull.
lie loved war. and wherever there was
lighting he went, not to see IL, but to take
a hand He was not able to come to the
United States for the civil war, being need
ed I'm China and in New Zealand tribal wars;
But he took part with Garibaldi, marched
with Won Moltke TO Sadowa. participated as
a volunteer in Abyssinia, with Lord Napier
al Magdala; fought with the French against
the Germans: took hand in Spain and got
himself in disfavor with the Queen because
of #: was at Commassie. Transvaal, Zulu
land. AfSnanlStan. ali the f1Byptitll CAIN
paigns in Burmah, out at the Japan-Chi-
nese trouble aud in Greece. Probably no
one man living had seen SO much war and
knew so little about IL. He has had no COM
uand since the affair at AlderShOt, but he
was duly promoted to lieutenant gen
eral Sunderland his fathers native
town has persistently returned him To Par
lament but he was at last unseated, and
got another seat for Durham, the same
county Mrs. Allan. rich and piouS
lady of the Baptist faith. to which his
father was attached. left him "A fortune of
a million sterling If he would hyphenate her
name with his own. Sir Henry did 1T and
got the million. OF recent years the Office
Of military correspondent of the Times has
heen his excuse for going to war. In Egypt
lac, led the charge into the Notifications of
Tel-el- K cher. and one night at Cairo, when
the railway station was on fire and a train
OF twenty-three ears of ammunition was
with his colors and medals on his breast,
rushed into the station alone, coupled up the
cars got on an engine. backed II up to the
train and pulled il out of the blaze. He was
the best horSeman | ever saw and even al
f1fty-five years of age could ride anything.
at Ismalia. and he brought out a shipload
Of Ice ut his own expense for the hospitals
at Alexandria. Rich brave. restless in
action and talk, generous he tried to model
his life on that of Lord Peterborough-with
the sex left out--and he was altogether the
most unimportant in military life i'm Great
Britain. He was the second baronet. al
though his father did not live to know he
had been made one. His brother distin-
guished himself in the diplomatic service in
South Africa and was knighted there A
later dispatch reports that his body has
been recovered and that il is mutiIated. His
wife was daughter OF Earl Ducie.