text:  Why no effort was made on the first day to put down the insurrection: Why in the arrangements for the defence of the cantonments the commisariat fort was neglected and the other forts neither occupied nor destroyed: Why almost every detachment that was sent out was too small to effect its object: Why with a force of nearly six thousand men we should never on any one occasion have had two thousand in the field and as in the action at Beymaroo only one gun: Why so many orders appear to have been disregarded; why so few were punctually obeyed