Memories of the Mutiny, Volume 2Remington, 1894 - India |
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1st Madras Fusiliers advance afterwards Allahabad Alum Bagh APPENDIX army arrived asked Battery Bengal Bithoor Brigade British brought Calcutta Calpee camp Captain capture Cavalry Cawnpore Char Bagh Char Bagh Bridge charge chillum cholera cloth Colonel column command course Crown 8vo Dhacca elephants enemy enemy's entrenchment fighting fire Force front gallant garden Garrison ground gunners guns Havelock head heard heavy Hirn Khanah horse India Indian Mutiny Infantry killed letter Lieut Lieut.-Colonel Lieutenant Lord Clyde Lucknow Madras Fusiliers Major-General Malleson Maude ment Mess morning musketry Mutiny native nearly Neill never night non-commissioned officers officers Oudh Outram Palace poor position rear rebels received Regiment REMINGTON Residency river road round-shot Royal Artillery sent Sepoys shot side Sikhs Sir Colin Sir James Outram soldiers tent thought tion told took troops Victoria Cross village yards اور فوج کی
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Page 510 - I have scoured my lota; you will defile it by your touch." The Khalasi rejoined, " You think much of your caste, but wait a little, the Sahib-log will make you bite cartridges soaked in cow and pork fat, and then where will your caste be...
Page 518 - Stirling and my aide-de-camp, who had placed himself in their front, were not to be denied. Their rear showed the ground strewed with wounded ; but on they steadily and silently came, then with a cheer charged, and captured the unwieldy trophy of their valour. " The enemy lost all heart, and, after a hurried fire of musketry, gave way in total rout. Four of my guns came up and completed their discomfiture by a heavy cannonade; and, as it grew dark, the roofless barracks of our Artillery were dimly...
Page 526 - 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 blood-stains ; the task will...
Page 513 - Council, loading their pistols, barricading the doors, sleeping on sofas ; Members of Council abandoning their houses with their families, and taking refuge on board ship : crowds of lesser celebrities, impelled by these examples, having hastily collected their valuables, were rushing to the Fort, only too happy to be permitted to sleep under the Fort guns.
Page 565 - The storming party started, and under a hot fire from the neighbouring buildings, arrived under the garden wall, over which their leader, Captain Wolseley. clambered in company with a bugler. In the garden were several of the enemy, who fired upon him and then fled. " On finding that the drawbridge...
Page 559 - For highly distinguished conduct on the 25th of September, 1857, when the troops penetrated into the city of Lucknow, in having charged on horseback, with Her Majesty's 90th Regiment, when, gallantly headed by Colonel Campbell, it captured two guns in the face of a heavy fire of grape, and having afterwards returned, under a severe fire of musketry, to bring up limbers and horses to carry off the captured ordnance, which he accomplished.
Page 526 - Marshal will use the lash in forcing any one objecting to complete his task. After properly cleaning up his portion the culprit is to be immediately hanged, and for this purpose a gallows will be erected close at hand.
Page 512 - ... deliverance.|| In the midst of all these tales of strife and misery, it is well that an English official has placed on record the following statement of the humanity evinced by the villagers generally. Mr. Greathed, the commissioner, writing from Meerut, in the very height of the excitement, states — " All the Delhi fugitives have to tell of some kind acts of protection and rough hospitality; and yesterday a fakir came in with a European child he had picked up on the Jumna. He had been a good...
Page 514 - Behind the house flowed a small deep river, and beyond was a jungle of thick cypress and brushwood ; all agreed to cross and hide in the jungle. The house was now being surrounded, the police were in the garden, and had occupied a small temporary bridge across the river, where they shot a number of men, women, and children. Some escaped by a ford; as for me I followed in the rear, and came up with Mrs.