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The late Lieut.-General Sir Sydney Cotton, G.C.B., Governor of Chelsea Hospital, 1874. Creator: Unknown.

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The late Lieut.-General Sir Sydney Cotton, G.C.B., Governor of Chelsea Hospital, 1874. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Debenham. 'The death of Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Cotton, the late Governor of Chelsea Hospital, was noticed by us a month ago, but we have been compelled to defer publishing his engraved Portrait. He was one of the best officers that the British Government of India ever had in its service...On two separate occasions Sir Sydney Cotton commanded successfully expeditions of four or five thousand men against the warlike tribes in the hills beyond the Peshawur border, and against a Hindustanee colony of fanatics who had taken up a position in those hills for the purpose of disturbing the British frontier...A volume published by Sir Sydney Cotton in 1868, entitled "Nine Years on the North-West Frontier of India", is still worthy of perusal, as a contribution to the history of the British Indian Empire during a period before and after the rebellion of 1857. It does not spare the exposure of serious faults in our Indian administration of that time'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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