A Few Words Anent the R̀ed' Pamphlet: By One who Has Served Under the Marquis of DalhousieBosworth and Harrison, 1858 - 30페이지 |
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advance Agra Allahabad amongst arms Arrah arrived attack Azimgurh Barrackpore barracks battery Benares Bengal Army Bithoor boats bridge Brigadier British Calcutta cantonment Captain cartridges Cawnpore Civil Service Colonel Birch countrymen Delhi detachment Dinapore disaffection disarmed disbanded district effect endeavoured enemy enemy's entrenchment European fearful felt Ferozpore fire flank force Fusiliers Futtehgurh Futtehpore garrison Government of India Governor-General guard guns Gwalior Havelock Hindoo Hugh Wheeler hundred insurgents insurrection Irregular Cavalry jemadar June King of Oudh Lieut Lieutenant lines Lord Dalhousie Lucknow magazine Mahomedan Majesty's marched massacre Meerut ment miles military morning murdered mutiny Nana Sahib Native Infantry native officers native regiments native troops night once Oude Oudh outbreak party Patna plunder position possession Punjaub reached rebels received remained residents resolved revolt Rifles river road sent Sepoys shot Sikhs Sir Charles Napier Sir Henry Lawrence soldiers station treasury village whilst wounded
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7 페이지 - ... the scattered villagers nevertheless return whenever the power of peaceable possession revives. A generation may pass away, but the succeeding generation will return. The sons will take the places of their fathers, the same site for the...
103 페이지 - ... rainy season, took all the duties of a corps of the line ,• who, by their very formation, gave the first check to the insolent demeanour of the natives of Calcutta ; who were instrumental in saving that city from, the horrors of an insurrection ; who, raised in June, were thoroughly organised in July, and who, when brigaded with crack Highland Regiments in November, were halted by Sir Robert Garrett, in order that he might compliment them upon the unsurpassed manner in which they went through...
7 페이지 - The sons will take the places of their fathers ; the same site for the village, the same position for the houses, the same lands will be reoccupied by the descendants of those who were driven out when the village was depopulated ; and it is not a trifling matter that will drive them out, for they will often maintain their post through times of disturbance and convulsion, and acquire strength sufficient to resist pillage and oppression with success.
33 페이지 - ... would be called upon to use contained nothing which could do violence to their religious scruples. If after receiving these assurances, the sepoys of the 34th Regiment, or of any other regiment, still refuse to place trust in their officers and in the Government, and still allow suspicions to take root in their minds, and to grow into disaffection, insubordination, and mutiny, the fault is their own, and their punishment will be upon their own heads. That it will be a sharp and certain punishment...
201 페이지 - ... siege-guns to take possession of this bridge ; and accordingly, at four o'clock, PM of the day of his arrival, General Wilson found himself attacked by the enemy, who had taken up a very advantageous position on some rising ground about a mile from the British camp on the other side of the river, whilst a company of 60th Rifles was detached to hold the bridge. The two 18-pounders replied to the heavy guns, and four guns of Major Tomb's troop Horse Artillery, supported by a squadron of Carbineers,...
48 페이지 - Ray nor, with the other Europeans, did everything that possibly could be done for the defence of the magazine ; and where all have behaved so bravely, it is almost impossible for me to point out any particular individual. However, I am in duty bound to bring to the notice of Government the gallantry of Conductors Buckley and Scully on this trying occasion. The former, assisted only by myself, loaded and fired in rapid succession the several guns...
132 페이지 - The dead bodies were thrown into a well outside the entrenchment near the unfinished barracks ; and this work was generally done at the close of each day, as nobody could venture out in the daytime, on account of the shot and shell flying in all directions like hailstones. The distress was so great, that no one could offer a word of consolation to his friend, or attempt to administer to the wants of another. The dead bodies of young ladies tenderly brought up, were placed outside the verandah amongst...
200 페이지 - Regiment Native Infantry march on the 22nd. One squadron 9th Lancers and four guns will march on the 24th or 25th. The above will all be at Kurnaul on the 28th. The 2nd Europeans, 3rd troop 3rd brigade Horse Artillery, will probably follow on the 26th. The whole will be at Kurnaul on the 30th. I propose then to advance with the column towards Delhi on the 1st, and be opposite to Bhagput on the 5th. At this last place, I should wish to be joined by the force from Meerut.
47 페이지 - Stewart, with the lighted matches in their hands, and with orders that, if any attempt was made to force that gate, both guns were to be fired at once, and they were to fall back on that part of the magazine in which Lieutenant Willoughby and I were posted. The principal gate of the magazine was similarly defended by two guns, with the chevaux-de-frise laid down on the inside.
47 페이지 - Stewart, ready to be fired by a preconcerted signal, which was that of conductor Buckley raising his hat from his head, on the order being given by Lieutenant Willoughby. The train was fired by conductor Scully, but not until such time as the last round from the howitzers had been fired.