` Our earth never shook but once -- upon the day that the Excellent One received Enlightenment . ' ` Umph ! I saw Delhi shake at least -- and Delhi is the navel of the world . ' ` So they turned against women and children ? That was a bad deed , for which the punishment can not be avoided . ' ` Many strove to do so , but with very small profit . I was then in a regiment of cavalry . It broke . Of six hundred and eighty sabres stood fast to their salt -- how many , think you ? Three . Of whom I was one . ' ` The greater merit . ' ` Merit ! We did not consider it merit in those days . My people , my friends , my brothers fell from me . They said : `` The time of the English is accomplished . Let each strike out a little holding for himself . '' But I had talked with the men of Sobraon , of Chilianwallah , of Moodkee and Ferozeshah . I said : `` Abide a little and the wind turns . There is no blessing in this work . ''
In those XXXXX I rode seventy miles with an English Memsahib and her babe on my saddle-bow .
Chilianwallah Delhi English Excellent Ferozeshah Moodkee Sobraon Umph days sabres