text:  We noticed with satisfaction last year the well-deserved honours and rewards distributed to the corps by whose exploits the transient cloud thrown over our arms in Affghanistan had been cleared away; and the same course has been worthily followed up in the decorations cast from the captured Mahratta cannon and conferred without distinction of officers or men British or Sepoys on the victors of Maharajpoor and Punniar; as well as in the triumphal monuments to be erected by Bombay for the victories in Scinde and at Calcutta for those before Gwalior