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Greene County Herald
Leakesville, Greene County, Mississippi
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Description of British Indian troops, particularly Sikhs, serving in the British army on the Western Front. They are portrayed as disciplined, handsome soldiers from British India, comparable in courage to American Indians despite differences in fighting methods.
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The Indians in the British army on the western front, notably the Sikhs, that highly disciplined military force from British India, have little in common with the American red men. They come from the other side of the earth; they are sons of a deeply religious sect, and for 50 years or more have been an important factor in the British dominion of the far East.
They are tall, well-built, handsome men, most of them with beards, and in perfection of drill and military bearing they are not excelled by any troops on the western front.
But while their methods of fighting are quite dissimilar, the Sikh fighting force being a well-trained military machine, while the American Indian is a flexible unit, there is one thing in which they are very much alike. As a humorous English writer—Punch and its punsters still live—puts it:
"I have had an opportunity to study both the Indians of the East and the Indians of the West, and while they are very dissimilar in most things, when it comes to courage, I may be excused for saying that it is six of one and a half dozen of the other!"
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The Indians in the British army on the western front, notably the Sikhs from British India, are described as a highly disciplined military force with little in common with American red men. They are tall, well-built, handsome men with beards, excelling in drill and military bearing. Despite dissimilar fighting methods—the Sikhs as a well-trained machine versus the flexible American Indian—they share equal courage, as noted by a humorous English writer from Punch.