 | Martin Richard Gubbins - India - 1858 - 628 pages
...rushed out towards the insurgents, and one of my men, Goordhun, of the 6th Company, called out to roe to throw down my pistol, and he would save me. I did...thence sent him under a guard, and made him over to Rajah Lonee Singh of Mithowlee. In a postscript dated the 9th, Captain Orr added that he had heard... | |
 | Henry Stedman Polehampton - 1858 - 480 pages
...of the drummer-boy, every one " was killed in the above list, besides poor good " Thomason and our two clerks. They denuded " the bodies of their clothes, for the sake of " plunder. They had on them one thousand " rupees, and Thomason one hundred. On our " arrival at Aurungabad, some... | |
 | Henry Stedman Polehampton - India - 1858 - 450 pages
...of the drummer-boy, every one " was killed in the above list, besides poor good " Thomason and our two clerks. They denuded " the bodies of their clothes, for the sake of " plunder. They had on them one thousand " rupees, and Thomason one hundred. On our " arrival at Aurungabad, some... | |
 | George Hutchinson - India - 1859 - 294 pages
...shot him, and then, rushing forward, they killed the wounded and the children, butchering them in the most cruel way. With the exception of the drummer...the above list, and, besides, poor good Thomason and our two clerks, the bodies being denuded of their clothes for the sake of plunder. They had on them... | |
 | Noah Alfred Chick - India - 1859 - 1010 pages
...shot him, and then rushing forward, they killed the wounded and the children, butchering them in the most cruel way. With the exception of the Drummer...the above list, and besides, poor good Thomason and our two clerks, denuding the bodies of their clothes for the sake of plunder. They had on them rupees... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - India - 1876 - 758 pages
...the drummer-boy, every one (of the Shahjehanpore party*) was killed, and besides poor good Thomasoii and one or two clerks. They denuded the bodies of their clothes for the sake of plunder." At Fyzabad, Colonel Philip Goldney, of the Bengal Army, was Commissioner. I have spoken of him. * Captain... | |
 | George Bruce Malleson - India - 1878 - 626 pages
...more they completed their hellish work They killed the wounded and the children butchering them in the most cruel way. With the exception of the drummer boy every one was killed of the above list, fugitives from Shujehaupi'ir, besides poor good Thomason and our two clerks. They denuded the bodies... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1879 - 612 pages
...the wounded and children, butchering them in a most cruel way. With the exception of the drummer-boy, every one was killed of the above list ; and, besides, poor good Thomason and one or two clerks." Captain Orr was sent, under a guard, to Mithowlee, from whence he dispatched to Lucknow the letter... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - India - 1912 - 748 pages
...they shot him ; and then rushing up, they killed the wounded and the children, butchering them in the most cruel way. With the exception of the drummer...bodies of their clothes for the sake of plunder." It was deeds of this nature that made the British soldiers instruments of vengeance, terrible as death,... | |
 | John Bonham - India - 1928 - 104 pages
...the children, butchering them in the most cruel way. With the exception of the drummer-boy everyone was killed of the above list ; and, besides, poor good Thomason and our two clerks, the bodies being denuded of their clothes for the sake of plunder. " They let me have... | |
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I was 300 yards off at the utmost. Poor Lysaght was kneeling out in the open ground, with his hands folded across his chest, and, though not using his firearms, the cowardly wretches would not go up to the spot until they shot him ; and then rushing up,... 
