CASUALTIES AT THE SIEGE AND ASSAULT OF NOWAH, JANUARY, 1819.
+------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |94th Russell's Infantry | - | 1 | 12 | 58 | |95th Russell's I. | - | 2 | 3 | 56 | |96th Berar Inf. | - | 1 | 6 | 44 | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
For their services in this campaign the survivors were awarded the India General Service Medal, the issue of which was notified in the _London Gazette_ of February 28, 1851. The following clasps were issued with the medal:
KIRKEE.--For the action on November 5, 1817.
POONA.--For the engagement on November 17, 1817.
Those who were present at both actions received one clasp, engraved "Kirkee--Poona."
SEETABULDEE.--For the action fought by Colonel Scott on November 26, 1817.
NAGPORE.--For General Doveton's action on December 16.
Those present at both engagements received but one clasp, inscribed "Seetabuldee--Nagpore."
MAHEIDPORE.--For the action fought by the army under the command of Sir Thomas Hislop on December 21.
CORYGAUM.--For the gallant defence of the village of Corygaum by Colonel Staunton on January 1, 1818.
This battle honour has been conferred on the following corps:
11th Hussars. 16th Lancers. West Yorkshire. East Lancashire. Royal Munster Fusiliers. 1st Skinner's Horse. 1st Prince of Wales's Own Sappers and Miners. 2nd Queen's Own Rajput Light Infantry. 1st Brahmins. 3rd Brahmins. 4th Rajputs. 1st Gurkhas. 2nd Gurkhas. 9th Gurkhas.
It commemorates the services rendered by the forces employed at the siege and capture of the famous fortress which twenty years before had successfully defied Lord Lake. In 1803 the Maharajah had thrown in his lot with the Mahratta Princes, and Bhurtpore was a depot of arms for the armies of Holkar. Lord Lake, after his successful actions at Deig, Delhi, and Laswarree, determined to effect its capture. On January 3, 1804, he appeared before the fortress with a force which included the 22nd (Cheshire), 65th (York and Lancaster), 71st (Highland Light Infantry), 76th (West Ridings), and the 1st Bengal European Regiment (Royal Munster Fusiliers). On January 9 the place was assaulted, and we were driven back, with a loss of 5 officers and 64 men killed, 23 officers and 364 men wounded. On the 21st of the same month a second assault was repulsed, our losses being 18 officers and 569 men killed and wounded. The siege was now carried on more systematically, but with a very inadequate train, and on February 20 and 21 two assaults were delivered, which cost us no less than 51 officers and 1,771 men _hors de combat_. Lake then raised the siege.