The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India: And a Concise History of the Great Military Events which Have Tended to Consolidate British Empire in Hindostan, Volume 1 |
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Agra Allahabad arms army arrived artillery attack Bareilly Barrackpore battery Benares Bengal Bithoor boats Brigadier British brought bungalow Calcutta camp cantonments Captain Cawnpore Colonel command corps Delhi duty enemy English escape European fire force fusiliers gate governor-general guard guns Gwalior havildar heard Hindoo honour horse Hugh Wheeler India Indore insurgents intrenchment irregular cavalry jemadar Jhansie joined June killed king ladies letter Lieutenant lines Lucknow Madras majesty's Major Major-general Meerut ment Mhow miles military morning murdered mutineers Nana Nana Sahib native infantry native officers native troops night Nowgong o'clock Oude outbreak palace parade party pean picket plunder poor position rajah reached rebels regi remained residents revolt rifles river road round round shot rupees Sahib sent sepoys shot Sikhs soldiers sowars station subahdar taken tion told took town troopers Umballah village walls whole women wounded
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Page 19 - When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated; they entreated; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword , and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them.
Page 19 - Nothing in history or fiction, not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after he had wiped his bloody lips on the scalp of his murderer, approaches the horrors which were recounted by the few survivors of that night.
Page 24 - Europeans, by whose instrumentality the imperial policy of the " Governor and Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies," has been hitherto successfully carried out.
Page 18 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.
Page 513 - ... of succour. But the Governor-General in Council, while he most deeply laments the loss of the brave officers and men, regards this partial reverse only as a new occasion for displaying the stability and vigour of the British power, and the admirable spirit and valour of the British Indian army. " By order of the Right Honourable the Governor-General of India in Council.
Page 363 - General Havelock thanks his soldiers for their arduous exertions of yesterday, which produced in four hours the strange result of a rebel army driven from a strong position, eleven guns captured and their whole force scattered to the winds, without the loss of a single British soldier. To what is this astounding effect to be attributed?
Page 496 - ... the MajorGeneral feels assured British pluck and determination will carry everything before them, and that the bloodthirsty and murderous mutineers against whom they are fighting will be driven headlong out of their stronghold, or be exterminated.
Page 301 - Rao shall, on his voluntarily agreeing to this arrangement, receive a liberal pension from the Company's Government for the support of himself and family; the amount of this pension will be fixed by the Governor General, but Brigadier General Malcolm takes upon himself to engage that it shall not be less than eight lacs of Rupees per annum.
Page 466 - The guns, I am happy to say, were saved ; but a waggon of Major Scott's battery was blown up. I must not fail to mention the excellent conduct of a sowar of the 4th Irregular Cavalry and two men of the 9th Lancers. Privates Thomas Hancock and John Purcell, who, when my horse was shot down, remained by me throughout. One of these men and the sowar offered me their horses, and I was dragged out by the sowar's horse. Private Hancock was severely wounded, and Private Purcell's horse was killed under...
Page 150 - Excellency engages that he will establish in his reserved dominions such a system of administration (to be carried into effect by his own officers) as shall be conducive to the prosperity of his subjects, and be calculated to secure the lives and property of the inhabitants; and his Excellency will always advise with, and act in conformity to the counsel of the officers of the said Honourable Company.