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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Related booksOther editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesadvance Agra Allahabad amongst arms Arrah arrived attack Azimgurh Barrackpore barracks battery Benares Bengal Army Bithoor boats bridge Brigadier British Calcutta cantonment Captain cartridges Cawnpore Civil Service civilians Colonel Birch Colonel Neill column countrymen Delhi detachment Dinapore disarmed district effect endeavoured enemy enemy's entrenchment European fearful felt Ferozpore fire flank force Fusiliers Futtehgurh Futtehpore garrison Government of India Governor-General ground guard guns Gwalior hands Havelock Hindoo Hugh Wheeler hundred insurgents insurrection Irregular Cavalry jemadar June King of Oudh Lieut Lieutenant lines Lord Lucknow magazine Mahomedan Majesty's marched massacre Meerut ment miles military morning murdered mutiny Nana Sahib Native Infantry native officers native regiments native troops night once Oudh outbreak party Patna plunder position possession Punjaub reached rebels remained residents resolved revolt Rifles river road sent Sepoys shot Sikhs Sir Henry Lawrence soldiers sowars station steamer treasury village whilst wounded Popular passagesPage 48 - ... scaling the walls; and which shortly after arrived. On the ladders being erected against the wall, the whole of our Native establishment deserted us by climbing up the sloped sheds on the inside of the magazine and descending the ladders on the outside, after which the enemy appeared in great... Page 203 - The first few rounds from the insurgents' guns were admirably aimed, plunging through our camp ; but they were ably replied to by our two 18pounders... Page 211 - At different times, between the 7th and llth, these bastions opened fire with an efficiency and vigor which excited the unqualified admiration of all who had the good fortune to witness it. Every object contemplated in the attack was accomplished with a success even beyond my expectations, and I trust I may be permitted to say that while there are many noble passages in the history of the Bengal Artillery, none will be nobler than that which will tell of its work on this occasion. Page 47 - Stewart, with the lighted matches in their hands, and with orders that, if any attempt was made to force that gate, both guns were to be fired at once, and they were to fall back on that part of the magazine in which Lieutenant Willoughby and I were posted. The principal gate of the magazine was similarly defended by two guns, with the chevaux-de-frise laid down on the inside. Page 208 - What a sight our camp would be even to those who visited Sebastopol! The long lines of tents, the thatched hovels of the native servants, the rows of horses, the parks of artillery, the English soldier, in his gray linen coat and trowsers (he has fought as bravely as ever without pipeclay) the Sikhs with their red and blue turbans, the Affghans with... Page 47 - Delhi side of the bridge was already in the possession of a body of cavalry. On Sir Theophilus Metcalfe observing this, he proceeded with Lieutenant Willoughby to see if the city gate was closed against the mutineers. However, this step was needless, as the mutineers were admitted directly to the palace, through which they passed cheering. On Lieutenant Willoughby's return to the magazine... Page 134 - I have seen the dead bodies of officers and tenderlybrought up young ladies of rank (colonels' and captains' daughters), put outside in the veranda in the rain, to await the time when the fatigue party usually went round to carry the dead to the •well, as above, for there was scarcely room to shelter the living ; the buildings were so sadly riddled 284] India.] [285 that every safe corner available was considered a great object. Page 137 - unusual courage, went up, and, laying himself down under the burning waggon, pulled away from it what loose splinters, &c. he could get hold of, all the while throwing earth upon the flames. He was soon joined by two soldiers, who brought with them a couple of buckets of water, which were very dexterously thrown about by the Lieutenant, and while the buckets were taken to be replenished from the... Page 47 - I have the honor to report, for the information of Government, and in the absence of my commanding officer, Lieutenant Willoughby, Artillery, supposed to be killed on his retreat from Delhi to this station, the following facts as regards the capture of the Delhi Magazine by the mutineers and insurgents on the llth instant. On the morning of that date, between 7 and 8 AM, Sir Theophilus Metcalfe came to my house, and requested that I would accompany him to the magazine, for the purpose of having two... Page 105 - The truth is, the peers were in a fright. Twas a pity; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. Bibliographic information
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