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36, 40, 41, 54, 118, 303–4, 311
    Mardan 211
    Markham, Brigadier 384, 385, 386
    Marsden, Lieutenant 290
    Martin, Major General Claude 440
    Masulipatam 470
    Mathias, Lieutenant Colonel, 358
    Maude, Captain Francis 336, 353
    Maxwell, Colonel Patrick 499–500
    M’Dowell, George 232
    Meadows, Major General John 405–6
    Meadows-Taylor, Lieutenant Philip 105, 152, 175, 442
    meals in barracks, soldiers’ entitlement 144
    Meani, battle (1843) 60, 319
    medals 322, 324, 325–7
    medical techniques 403–4
    Meerut 139, 140
    climate 31
    Mutiny commences at (1857) 74
    Mehtab Singh, General 206
    Mein, Dr Pulteney 278
    memsahibs see European women, in India
    Menezes, Lieutenant General S. L. 259
    messes 144–5, 158
    Metcalfe, Sir Charles 42, 442
    Metcalfe, Private Henry 99, 127, 326, 330, 338, 456
    Methodism, in British Army 459
    Metje, Lieutenant Torrens 313
    Meuron, Brigadier General Charles Daniel, Comte de 216–17
    Meuron, Lieutenant Colonel Henry David de 217
    Mian Mir 158
    Middleton, Lieutenant William 474
    Mièville, Quartermaster Sergeant H. 217
    military corridors 35
    Military Department 188
    militia 223
    Minto, Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of [Viceroy, 1905–10] 1188–9
    Mir Emaum Ali, Havildar 322, 426–7
    Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal 48, 49
    Mir Kasim, Nawab of Bengal 49
    Mirza Abutakt 100
    missionaries, Christian 72–3, 458–9
    mofussil 121
    Moira, Earl of see Hastings, 1st Marquess of
    Mole, Private Edwin 176–7
    Molesworth, Guilford 26
    Monin, Major General A. 246
    monkeys, as pets 174–5
    Monro, Colonel W. 447
    Monson, Colonel William 55, 292, 310
    monsoons 28, 29, 33
    Moore, Lieutenant 313–14
    Moplahs [Mappilas] 288
    Morley-Minto reforms (1906–10) 87
    Mornington, 2nd Earl of see Wellesley, Richard
    mortality rates 468–9
    mortars 381
    Mountain, Colonel Armine S. H. 116, 313, 363, 460
    mountain batteries 255
    Movable Column (Punjab) 75, 77, 207, 209, 212, 241–2
    Moxon, Ensign Philip 344
    Mudki, battle (1845) xxix–xxx, 5, 6, 9, 63, 321, 334, 336, 340, 344, 366–7, 402, 499
    Muhammed Hayat Khan 207
    Mukherjee, Rudrangshu 258
    Mulcahey, Private James 425–6
    Mulraj, governor of Multan 66, 67–8, 209, 383
    Multan, siege and capture (1848–49) 66–7, 282, 334, 375, 381–2, 383–6, 389
    Multan Tent Club 168
    Mungal Pandy, sepoy 73–4
    Munoora-ud-dowlah 448–9
    Munro, Major Hector 49, 260
    Munro, Captain Innes 117, 122, 133, 184
    Munro, Surgeon William 404
    Murphy, Colour Sergeant 471
    Murray, Dr John 406, 407
    Murree Hills 34
    muskets 5–6, 348, 353, 354
    Muter, Colonel Dunbar Douglas 34, 281, 500–1
    Muter, Mrs 34, 280–1, 500–1
    mutinies 72, 259, 272–4
    by EIC officers 53–4
    Vellore (1806) 273
    White Mutiny (1859–61) xxvi, 80, 252–3
    Mutiny (1857–59) xxxi, 43, 73–9, 301–2
    consequences and legacy 80–1
    mutineers, blown from guns 428–30
    volunteer units 148
    Mutiny Act (1754) 182
    Mynin, Colonel 248
    Mynin, Major 248
    Mysore 40, 54
    artillery 332–3
    Mysore Wars
    First (1767–69) 51
    Third (1790–92) 53
    nabobs 51–2
    Nagpore, annexation of 70
    Najafghur, action (1857) 212, 346–7
    Nana Sahib (Nana Govind Dhondu Pant) 71, 75–6, 79
    Napier, Major General Sir Charles 59–61, 68, 143, 176, 186, 197, 321, 371, 476
    Nasir-ud-din Hyder, Nawab of Oudh 70–1
    natives, brutality towards 147–8, 452–7
    nautch-girls 436, 439
    naval power, European 37
    Nazir Khan 301–2
    needlework, by soldiers 159
    Neill, Brigadier James 76
    Neill, Lieutenant Martin 119
    Nepal War (1814–16) 55
    Newnham, Corporal Thomas 491
    Newsome, Sergeant Harry 367–8
    Newton, Lieutenant 312–13
    Nicholson, Alexander 204
    Nicholson, Charles 207
    Nicholson, Brigadier General John xxx, 165, 185, 200, 203–8, 361
    in the Mutiny 75, 77, 204, 207, 346, 428
    Noel, Lieutenant 14
    Norman, Lieutenant Henry 322–3
    North-West Frontier 72, 86, 287
    forward policy 86–7
    Russian threat to 26, 81, 85
    Nott, Major General Sir William 58
    O’Brien, Mr 305, 310
    Ochterlony, General Sir David