Lucknow & Oude in the Mutiny: A Narrative and a Study |
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advance Allahabad Alum Bagh Amils annexation army arrived artillery attack August Azimgurh Baily Guard gate began Benares Bithoor bridge Brigade mess British troops Calcutta captured cavalry Cawnpore Battery Central India checked chief Chinhut clans column command contest defeated defence Delhi Dinapore disaffection districts eastern effect enemy enemy's English fighting fire flank force front Fyzabad gallery Ganges garrison Gogra Goomtee Government ground Gubbins's guns Gwalior Havelock held infantry Innes's post Jhansi joined July Jumna June Lord Lord Dalhousie loss Lucknow Mahomedan Martinière Meerut ment military mines Moghul Moulvie Mungurwar Munzil musketry Mutchi Bhown mutiny Nana Sahib Neill Nuwab officers Oude Outram party province Punjab Rajah Rajpoot reached rebel Redan regiment reinforcements relief Residency position revolt river road Rohilkund Rohillas route Sago's secure Sepoys September shelter siege Sikh square Singh Sir Colin Sir Henry Lawrence Sir James Outram sortie stage success Talookdars Umballa Ungud whole
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Page 328 - Jellalabad), should we not then have a more difficult game to play than Clive had at Plassey, or Wellington at Assaye ? We should then be literally striking for our existence, at the most inclement season of the year, with the prestige of our name...
Page 144 - 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 310 - His 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...
Page 311 - Company; while ample provision should be made for the dignity, affluence, and honour of the King and of his family. But His Majesty the King refused to enter into the amicable agreement which was offered for his acceptance. Inasmuch, then, as His Majesty Wajid...
Page 312 - Wherefore, proclamation is hereby made that the government of the territories of Oude is henceforth vested, exclusively and for ever, in the Honourable East India Company. All Amils, Nazims, Chuckledars, and other servants of the Durbar; all officers, civil and military; the soldiers of the state ; and all the inhabitants of Oude, are required to render, henceforth, implicit and exclusive obedience to the officers of the British Government.
Page 336 - To those Talookdars, chiefs, and landowners, with their followers, who shall make immediate submission to the Chief Commissioner of Oude, surrendering their arms and obeying his orders, the Right Honourable the Governor-General promises that their lives and honour shall be safe, provided that their hands are not stained with English blood murderously shed.
Page 336 - But as regards any further indulgence which may be extended to them, and the condition in which they may hereafter be placed, they must throw themselves upon the justice and mercy of the British Government.
Page 335 - The army of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief is in possession of Lucknow, and the city lies at the mercy of the British Government, whose authority it has, for nine months, rebelliously defied and resisted. This resistance, begun by a mutinous soldiery, has found support from the inhabitants of the city, and of the province of Oude at large.
Page 196 - You must aid us in every way, even to cutting your way out, if we can't force our way in,' — 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...
Page 336 - Oude that, with the above-mentioned exceptions, the proprietary right in the soil of the province is confiscated to the British government, which will dispose of that right in such manner as it may seem fitting.