A Postscript to the Records of the Indian Mutiny: An Attempt to Trace the Subsequent Careers and Fate of the Rebel Bengal Regiments, 1857-1858 |
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Agra Alambagh ammunition Angad arms army arrived Artillery attack Baillie Guard Bakht Khan Barrackpore Bartrum BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY bridge British broke cantonment Captain Fulton Cawnpore Chillianwalla Chinhat Colonel column command Company counter-mine defences Delhi deserted detachment Dilkusha disarmed enemy enemy's entrenchment European fire fought garrison ground Gubbins Gubbins's Gujerat guns Gwalior Havelock Havildar heard horses Indian Inglis's Irregular Cavalry joined July June Kanauji Katherine Kavanagh killed Late 2nd Battalion Late Ist Battalion Lawrence letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Light Cavalry loyal Lucknow Major marched Martinière Meerut Metcalfe miles morning moved murdered musket mutineers night Nimach Oudh Outram palace Paltan parade party Phillour plunder Punjab Raised reached rebels Rees REGIMENT BENGAL NATIVE relieving force remained river roof roundshot sent sepoys shot siege Sikhs Singh Sir Colin Sir Henry soldiers soon sortie sowars station Subadar Tantia Topi thought took Umballa volunteers wall women and children wounded
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Page 247 - Heat like the mouth of a hell, or a deluge of cataract skies, Stench of old offal decaying, and infinite torment of flies, Thoughts of the breezes of May blowing over an English field, Cholera, scurvy, and fever, the wound that would not be...
Page 386 - If you hope to save this force, no time must be lost in pushing forward. We are daily being attacked by the enemy, who are within a few yards of our defences. Their mines have already weakened our post, and I have every reason to believe they are carrying on others. Their...
Page 278 - A vision of palaces, minars, domes azure and golden, cupolas, colonnade, long facades of fair perspective in pillar and column, terraced roofs — all rising up amid a calm still ocean of the brightest verdure. Look for miles and miles away, and still the ocean spreads, and the towers of the fairy-city gleam in its midst. Spires of gold glitter in the sun. Turrets and gilded spheres shine like constellations. There is nothing mean or squalid to be seen. There is a city more vast than Paris, as it...
Page 307 - Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty. May God have mercy on him.
Page 430 - Neill has determined that every stain of that innocent blood shall be cleared up and wiped out, previous to their execution, by such of the miscreants as may be hereafter apprehended, who took an active part in the Mutiny, to be selected according to their rank, caste, and degree of guilt. Each miscreant, after sentence of death is pronounced upon him, will be taken down to the house in question, under a guard, and will be forced into cleaning up a small portion of the...
Page 432 - The Major-General, therefore, in gratitude for and admiration of the brilliant deeds in arms achieved by General Havelock and his gallant troops, will cheerfully waive his rank on the occasion, and will accompany the force to Lucknow in his civil capacity as Chief Commissioner of Oude, tendering his military services to General Havelock as a volunteer.
Page 421 - I hope to be able to get on pretty well till about 1st proximo. If you have not relieved us by that time, we shall have no meat left, as I must keep some few bullocks to move my guns about the position. As it is I have had to kill almost all my gun bullocks, for my men could not perform the hard work without animal food.
Page 501 - But it is so obviously to the advantage of the State, that the Gwalior rebels should be first effectually destroyed, that our relief should be a secondary consideration. I trust, therefore, that Brigadier Wilson will furnish Colonel Grant with every possible aid to effect that object before sending him here.
Page 432 - CB ; and Major-General Outram feels that it is due to this distinguished officer, and the strenuous and noble exertions which he has already made to effect that object, that to him should accrue the honour of the achievement. Major-General Outram is confident that the great end for which General Havelock and his brave troops have so long and so gloriously fought, will now, under the blessing of Providence, be accomplished. ' The Major-General, therefore, in gratitude for and admiration of the brilliant...
Page 386 - ... has caused me much uneasiness, as it is quite impossible, with my weak and shattered force, that I can leave my defences. You must bear in mind how I am hampered ; that I have upwards of 120 sick and wounded, and at least 220 women, and about 230 children, and no carriage of any description, besides sacrificing twenty-three lacs of treasure, and about thirty guns of sorts.