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9 1ST ARGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. 173CHAPTER XLKaffir War, 1851-53Reserve Battalion.THE second Kaffir war broke out at the end of isso.1850, when every available man was required foractive operationsin the field. The reservebattalion of the 91st marched en route to FortHare on December 12th, and on the 26th a smalldetachment, under Lieutenant Mainwaring,marched from that fort to patrol the vicinityof the " military villages,"about six miles distant.Among the arrangements for the protection ofthe colony, a force was organized in 1848, byplacing soldiers discharged from various regiments,including the 91st, on certain grantsof land inBritish Kaffraria, and thus forming militaryvillages the idea being that each man solocated should be rationed at the public expensefor the first year seed, corn, and ; implements ofhusbandry to be found for the tillage of the land ;each portion to consist of twelve acres with the