THE RECORD OF THE DUBLIN FUSILIERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 15 February 1900, Page 5

THE RECORD OF THE DUBLIN FUSILIERS.

To the Dublin Fusiliers (writes a contributor in the L'nglish lll 'u.\t ratal Jft://a;//w), who stormed the Boer position in the first great fiuht at Glencoe, belongs the glory of establishing the British supremacy in India. They were the chief instrument in the hands of Glue, at Wandewash and Porto Novo they helped Coote to curry out the great design of Warren Hastings. Their name is wrhien m letters of blood on every page of our Indian history. It is moie tl.iin 200 years since the regiment was raised, but till 1871 it ne\tr saw the shores of England. All that time it was warring in the East. It had whipped the Dutch once and again ere the ehaige of Ulencoe, but until the day of Glencoe it never fought outside the borders of Asia, Its badges ar.' the Royal Tiger of Bengal and the Indian elephant. Round these are the great words, ' Plassey,' ' Mysore,' ' Buxar,' and ' The Carnatio.' The long list of victories that glitters on its colours is entirely made up of Indian names — and of these names 15 are peculiar to the 'Blue-Caps,' and are shared by no other regiment. The list of the victories is the story of Britain's lordship in the East : ' Arcot,' ' Condore,' ' Wandewash,' 'Sholingur,' ' Nundy Droog,' ' Amboyna,' ' Ternate,' ' Banda,' ' Pondicherry,' ' Mahidpoor,' ' Guzerat,' ' Seringapatam,' ' Kirkee.' ' Beni 800 Ally,' ' Aden,' ' Punjaub," ' Mooltan,' ' Goojerat,' ' Ava,' ' Pegu,' ' Lucknow ' I Such is the great record. The history of the Dublin Fusiliers is the history of British India.