376 GOVERNOR- GENERALSHIP OF LOED HASTINGS

the English could never penetrate into the mountains of Nepal. Then ensued the first of those numerous expeditions into the interior of the great hill-ranges surrounding India, in which the Anglo-Indian government has ever A NEPALESE SHIELD. since been at intervals engaged. The frontier which was to be the scene of war stretched for a distance of about six hundred miles, and the enemy had the com- mand of all the passes leading up into the highlands. The attack was made by the English at three separate points; and although General Gillespie was repulsed and killed in attempting to storm a fort, yet in spite of a brave and obstinate resistance, the British troops gained their footing within the hills and drove the