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Jodhpur Lancers (Hardcover)
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This is the story of the magnificent Jodhpur Lancers - one of
India's most charismatic cavalry regiments - even as centenary
celebrations begin of their finest hour, their extraordinary
victory at the Battle of Haifa (now in Israel) in 1918. Indeed, the
charge, mounted on horses against machine gun fire, at the
fortified city then held by German and Turkish forces, is described
by many as 'perhaps the greatest cavalry charge ever on a
regimental scale', ranking alongside Cromwell's Ironsides at
Marston Moor, the Polish Lancers at Somosierra and the German
cavalry at Mars-la-Tour. No wonder the Jodhpur Lancers were
referred to as the Jo Hokums ('As You Command') by the end of the
Great War - no challenge was insurmountable, no order ever refused.
Laced with anecdotes and 'inside stories', Michael Creese traces
the roots of the regiment from its raising by the legendary Sir
Pratap Singh to its early actions in China. From the muddy trenches
of France, to Haifa, Aleppo and Damascus; to its eventual
mechanisation in the Second World War. Finally, and sadly, to its
bureaucratic amalgamation with the Indian Army in the 1950s, where,
against many odds, it has been able to retain a slice of its
identity and history; the battle cry always 'Ran Banka Rathore'
('The Rathore - Invincible in Battle').
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