History of the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858: Commencing from the Close of the Second Volume of Sir John Kaye's History of the Sepoy War, Volumen1W.H. Allen and Company, 1878 |
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... detachment starts for Arah 79 Foresight of Mr. Vicars Boyle 80 The Defence of Arah • Captain Dunbar's march His force is surprised , and compelled to retreat The garrison of Arah still holds out Vincent Eyre Eyre resolves to attempt to ...
... detachment starts for Arah 79 Foresight of Mr. Vicars Boyle 80 The Defence of Arah • Captain Dunbar's march His force is surprised , and compelled to retreat The garrison of Arah still holds out Vincent Eyre Eyre resolves to attempt to ...
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... detach a force to keep it under , the Governor - General , on the 31st of May , despatched the following telegram to General Anson : - " I have heard to - day that you do not expect to be before Dehli until the 9th . In the meantime ...
... detach a force to keep it under , the Governor - General , on the 31st of May , despatched the following telegram to General Anson : - " I have heard to - day that you do not expect to be before Dehli until the 9th . In the meantime ...
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... detachment of them arrived by daybreak in the station , weary and footsore , yet ready for any emergency . This prompt action entirely disconcerted the sepoys . They determined to defer the outbreak to a more convenient season . But the ...
... detachment of them arrived by daybreak in the station , weary and footsore , yet ready for any emergency . This prompt action entirely disconcerted the sepoys . They determined to defer the outbreak to a more convenient season . But the ...
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... detachment of English soldiers , waited upon the King of Oudh and informed him that political necessities , and the fact that emissaries had made a mischievous use of his name , required that he should remove from Garden Reach and take ...
... detachment of English soldiers , waited upon the King of Oudh and informed him that political necessities , and the fact that emissaries had made a mischievous use of his name , required that he should remove from Garden Reach and take ...
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... detach another officer to command the army in the field . The officer whom he selected for the post was Major - General Havelock . The achievements of this officer belong to an- other section of this history . I purpose to con- tinue ...
... detach another officer to command the army in the field . The officer whom he selected for the post was Major - General Havelock . The achievements of this officer belong to an- other section of this history . I purpose to con- tinue ...
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Página 575 - ... indifferently fed and worse housed. They were exposed — especially the 13th Regiment — under the gallant Lieutenant Aitken, to a most galling fire of round shot and musketry, which materially decreased their numbers. They were so near the enemy that conversation could be carried on between them ; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was alternately resorted to, in vain, to seduce them from their allegiance to the handful of Europeans, who, in all probability, would have been...
Página 561 - Residency , they occupied these houses, some of which were within easy pistol shot of our barricades, in immense force, and rapidly made loop-holes on those sides which bore on our post, from which they kept up a terrific and incessant fire day and night, which caused many daily casualties, as there could not have been less than 8,000 men firing at one time into our position.
Página 558 - ADC from the commencement of the disturbances, - had conducted themselves throughout this arduous day. Sir Henry further particularly mentioned that he would bring the gallant conduct of Captain Radcliffe and of Lieutenant Bonham, of the Artillery, (who worked the howitzer successfully until incapacitated by a wound,) to the prominent notice of the Government of India. The manner in which Lieutenant Birch, 71st Native Infantry, cleared a village with a party of Sikh skirmishes, also elicited the...
Página 478 - From every pit, trench, and battery — -from behind the sand-bags piled on shattered houses — from every post still held by a few gallant spirits — rose cheer on cheer, even from the hospital.
Página 560 - July, when he expired, and the Government was thereby deprived, if I may venture to say so, of the services of a distinguished statesman and a most gallant soldier. Few men have ever possessed to the same extent the power which he enjoyed of winning the hearts of all those with whom he came in contact, and thus insuring the warmest and most zealous devotion for himself and for the Government which he served.
Página 524 - Seldom, perhaps never, has it occurred to a Commander-in-Chief to publish and confirm such an order as the following one, proceeding from MajorGeneral Sir James Outram, KCB " With such a reputation as Major-General Sir James Outram has won for himself, he can well afford to share glory and honour with others.
Página 567 - An occasional spy did indeed come in with the object of inducing our sepoys and servants to desert ; but the intelligence derived from such sources was, of course, entirely untrustworthy. We sent our messengers, daily calling for aid and asking for information, none of whom ever returned until the 26th day of the siege, when a pensioner named Ungud came back with a letter from General Havelock's camp, informing us that they were...
Página 568 - August — or thirty-five days later — that the relieving force, after having fought most nobly to effect our deliverance, had been obliged to fall back for reinforcements ; and this was the last communication we received until two days before the arrival of Sir James Outram on the 25th of September. " Besides heavy visitations of cholera and small-pox, we have also had to contend against a sickness which has almost universally pervaded the garrison. Commencing with a very painful eruption, it...