An Account of the Mutinies in Oudh: And of the Siege of the Lucknow Residency : with Some Observations on the Condition of the Province of Oudh : and on the Causes of the Mutiny of the Bengal Army |
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1st Madras Fusiliers 32nd Regt 78th Highlanders 9-pounder abandoned Allahabad Alum Bagh arms army Artillery attack bastion Bengal BENTLEY'S LIST Brigade Mess Brigadier Brigadier Inglis British brought building cantonments Capt Captain Fulton Cawnpoor battery chief Chinhut Colonel commanded Commissioner defence Dehli despatch Dilkoosha doolies enclosure enemy enemy's Engineers escape European fire force Fusiliers Fyzabad garrison Government ground Gubbins Havelock heavy guns Hindoo horse howitzer Hugh Wheeler India intrenchment joined Kaiser Bagh killed ladies large number Lieut Lieutenant loopholes Lucknow Major ment military Motee Munzil Muchee Bhowun musketry mutineers Naib Risaldar native guns native officers night O. I. Infantry occupied Oudh Outram palaces party position post 8vo province Rajah received regiment Residency river road roof round shot Seetapoor Seikh sepoys shells side siege Singh Sir Colin Sir Henry Lawrence Sir James Outram soldiers soon station Sultanpoor talooqdar tion troops Ungud village wall wounded
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Page 7 - Creasy to select for military description those few battles of which, in the words of Hallam, * a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes.
Page 260 - If you hope to save this force, no time must be lost in pushing forward. We are daily being attacked s 2 by the enemy, who are within a few yards of our defences.
Page 312 - 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.
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Page 300 - ... forth in a succession of deafening cheers. From every pit, trench, and battery, from behind the sandbags piled on shattered houses, from every post still held by a few gallant spirits, rose cheer on cheer ; even from the hospital many of the wounded crawled forth to join in that glad shout of welcome to those who had so bravely come to our assistance. It was a moment never to be forgotten.
Page 312 - Major-General, therefore," the order proceeded, " 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 Oudh, tendering his military services to General Havelock as a volunteer. On the relief of Lucknow the Major-General will resume his position at the head of the forces.
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Page 125 - 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, they killed 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. They denuded the bodies of their clothes,...