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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... enemy Battle of Sassiah . The British retire before the enemy Agra is plundered . Order is at last restored Life in the Agra fort • • Military measures adopted Expedition to Aligarh Mr. Colvin's health fails Mr. Colvin dies 262 264 265 ...
... enemy Battle of Sassiah . The British retire before the enemy Agra is plundered . Order is at last restored Life in the Agra fort • • Military measures adopted Expedition to Aligarh Mr. Colvin's health fails Mr. Colvin dies 262 264 265 ...
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... enemy at Bashíratganj He attacks and defeats him there Page Brigadier - General Neill arrives at Kánhpúr 489 Havelock crosses into Oudh . 490 He bivouacs at Mangalwár 491 Havelock beats the enemy at Onáo 492 Resolves to follow up the ...
... enemy at Bashíratganj He attacks and defeats him there Page Brigadier - General Neill arrives at Kánhpúr 489 Havelock crosses into Oudh . 490 He bivouacs at Mangalwár 491 Havelock beats the enemy at Onáo 492 Resolves to follow up the ...
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... enemy Eyre marches against and crushes the enemy 512 . 516 517 517 518 · 519 · 520 520 • 520 521 Outram arrives at Kánhpúr and continues Havelock in command • 522 The unparalleled self - abnegation and generosity of his act 523 . 525 ...
... enemy Eyre marches against and crushes the enemy 512 . 516 517 517 518 · 519 · 520 520 • 520 521 Outram arrives at Kánhpúr and continues Havelock in command • 522 The unparalleled self - abnegation and generosity of his act 523 . 525 ...
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... enemy's guns being shifted from point to point so as to bear on the weakest point of the besieged house , but with the effect only of increasing the damage effected in the outer wall . At last the enemy succeeded in placing the largest ...
... enemy's guns being shifted from point to point so as to bear on the weakest point of the besieged house , but with the effect only of increasing the damage effected in the outer wall . At last the enemy succeeded in placing the largest ...
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... enemy raised a barricade on the roof of the adjoining house , the besieged raised one still higher on their own . When provisions began to fail , a sally pro- cured more . In fact all the means that courage , labour , daring , and ...
... enemy raised a barricade on the roof of the adjoining house , the besieged raised one still higher on their own . When provisions began to fail , a sally pro- cured more . In fact all the means that courage , labour , daring , and ...
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A'gra action Ajmír Alláhábád amongst Arah army arrived artillery attack Barélí battery Bengal Bihár boats BOOK VIII Brigadier British Calcutta Captain cavalry Chapter civil Colonel Troup Colvin command Coopland crisis Dánápúr danger Dehlí despatched detachment disaffected disarming districts Durand duty enemy enemy's Euro Evans Bell fire force fugitives garrison Government guard guns Gwáliár Hindús Holkar horse hundred Hungerford India Indúr July July 25 June Kánhpúr Khán Kúnwar Singh ladies Lakhnao Lieutenant Lord Mackenzie magistrate Mahárájá Mahomedan Major-General Lloyd Máu ment miles military Mírath morning murder mutiny Nasírábád Native Infantry native officers native regiments native troops night o'clock once Oudh outbreak party Patná Patrick Grant pean plunder position province púr Rájá Rájpútáná reached rebels regiment Regiment of Native Residency revolt road Rohilkhand sent sepoys shot Sihor Sikhs Sir Henry Lawrence Sir John Kaye soldiers station steamer Tayler tion Travers treasury village whilst
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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...