1 Brigadier
2 McLaren mor-
3 tally wounded,
4 His high
5 character,
6 Brigadier
7 Taylor killed.
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9 warrior, who at Waterloo led the 42nd Highlanders
10 in the thickest of the fight. Another gallant and
11 meritorious officer, was also mortally wounded :
12 we allude to Brigadier McLaren,* who was borne
13 off the field when leading the 4th brigade of the
14 centre division, against the strongest part of the
15 Sikh entrenchment at Sobraon. He was beloved
16 by the Native soldiers, and also greatly esteemed
17 by the Europeans of the brigade. When confined
18 to his bed, after the receipt of his wound, he said
19 he must cross the Sutlej, with the gallant European
20 light infantry, even if carried in a dooly! His
21 mild, gentlemanly manners endeared him to every
22 one who had the pleasure of serving under him ;
23 and his loss could not have been felt more severely+
24 even by the “ husseenees” (16th grenadiers), which
25 he commanded, than by the 1st European light
26 infantry, which he led at Feerozshuhur, and with
27 which he entered the fatal field of Sobraon. The
28 29th foot had to deplore the loss of their com-
29 manding officer, Brigadier Charles Cyril Taylor.
30 In him were united, in an eminent degree, the
31 qualities of the soldier and the accomplished
32 gentleman: he was universally esteemed for the
33 urbanity of his manners, and none ever left his
34 society, without being impressed with the opinion,
35 that he was a superior man in every respect. The
36 gallant bearing of Her Majesty’s 29th, proved that
37 a military spirit of no ordinary stamp had superin-
38 * Since dead.