The Punjab and Delhi in 1857: Being a Narrative of the Measures by which the Punjab was Saved and Delhi Recovered During the Indian Mutiny, 1권William Blackwood and Sons, 1861 |
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9th Lancers advance Akhoond arms army arrived artillery attack Attock Barrackpore battery Bengal Berhampore Brigadier brought called camp cantonments Captain chief Colonel command Commander-in-Chief Commissioner companies comrades danger depot disaffection disarmed disbanded enemy escape European faithful Ferozepore fire force frontier Fusiliers gate Goorkhas Government ground guard guns hands havildar Hindoo Hindostan horse-artillery horses Hotee Murdan India infantry Irregular Cavalry Jheend Jullundhur Jutogh Kangra Khan King of Delhi Kurnal Lahore Lieutenant Light Cavalry lines Loodiana Lucknow magazine Major marched Meerut ment miles Mohammedan Mooltan morning moved mutiny native corps native officers native troops Nicholson night Nowshera once Oude outbreak parade passed Peshawur Philour picquet Poorbeah position Punjab Puttiala rajah Rawul Pindee ready rebels Regiments N. I. reported Rifles rumour scarcely seized sent sepoys Serai siege of Delhi Sikhs Simla Singh Sir John Lawrence soldiers soon sowars squadron station subahdar Sutlej traitors troopers Umballa Umritsur whole wounded
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vii 페이지 - If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say : if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us; They had swallowed us up quick : when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.
365 페이지 - Regiment confided in their Government, and believed their commanding officer, instead of crediting the idle stories with which false and evil-minded men have deceived them, their religious scruples would still have remained inviolate, and themselves would still be, as they have hitherto been, faithful soldiers, trusted by the State, and laying up for future years all the rewards of a long and honourable service. " But the Governor-General in Council can no longer have any confidence in this regiment,...
388 페이지 - The guns, I am happy to say, were saved ; but a waggon of Major Scott's battery was blown up. I must not fail to mention the excellent conduct of a sowar of the 4th. Irregular Cavalry and two men of the 9th. Lancers, Privates Thomas Hancock and John Purcell, who, when my horse was shot down, remained by me throughout. One of these men and the sowar offered me their horses, and I was dragged out by the sowar's horse. Private Hancock was severely wounded, and Private Purcell's horse was killed under...
364 페이지 - From all I could glean there is not the slightest doubt that this insurrection has been originated and matured in the palace of the King of Delhi, and that with his full knowledge and sanction, in the mad attempt to establish himself in the sovereignty of this country. It is well known that he has called on the neighbouring states to co-operate with him in .thus trying to subvert the existing Government.
366 페이지 - His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. " This order is to be read at the head of every regiment, troop, and company in the service.
22 페이지 - It was carefully and clearly shown to them that the cartridges which they 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...
217 페이지 - ... means of living comfortably in your homes. Those who have studied history know well that no army has ever been more kindly treated than that of India. Those regiments which now remain faithful will receive the rewards due to their constancy ; those soldiers who fall away now will lose their service for ever ! It will be too late to lament hereafter when the time has passed by. Now is the opportunity of proving your loyalty and good faith. The British Government will never want for native soldiers....
312 페이지 - I was attacked by a large force of mutineers, accompanied by heavy guns, from Delhi. I immediately sent off a company of Her Majesty's 60th Royal Rifles, with another in support, to hold the iron bridge, which is the key of my position ; and I detached the four guns of Major Tombs' troop, supported by a squadron of Carabineers, right along the bank of the Hindun river.