The Indian Mutiny of 1857

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Seeley, 1891 - 421 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 199 - Stirling and my aide-de-camp, who had placed himself in their front, were not to be denied. Their rear showed the ground strewed with wounded ; but on they steadily and silently came, then with a cheer charged, and captured the unwieldy trophy of their valour. " The enemy lost all heart, and, after a hurried fire of musketry, gave way in total rout. Four of my guns came up and completed their discomfiture by a heavy cannonade; and, as it grew dark, the roofless barracks of our Artillery were dimly...
الصفحة 234 - Soon all the rear-guard and heavy guns were inside our position ; and then ensued a scene which baffles description. For eighty-seven days the Lucknow garrison had lived in utter ignorance of all that had taken place outside. Wives who had long mourned their husbands as dead, were again restored to them ; others, fondly looking forward to glad meetings with those near and dear to them, now for the first time learned that they were alone, On all sides eager inquiries for relations and friends were...
الصفحة 17 - Seaton, who enjoyed, during the suppression of the revolt, the best means of judging him, described him ' as a man of great abilities, of undaunted courage, of stern determination, and by far the best soldier among the rebels.
الصفحة 291 - Gate and martello towers, mounting a single gun at such points as require some additional flanking fire to that given by the bastions themselves. The bastions are small, mounting generally three guns in each face, two in each flank, and one in embrasure at the salient. They are provided with masonry parapets about 12 feet in thickness, and have a relief of about 16 feet above the plane of site.
الصفحة 172 - All those who are in no way connected with the acts of Lord Dalhousie, and are willing to lay down their arms, shall receive a safe passage to Allahabad.
الصفحة 292 - ... feet, and having a scarp wall 8 feet high; exterior to this is a dry ditch of about 25 feet in height, and from 16 to 20 feet in depth. The counter-scarp is simply an earthen slope easy to descend. The glacis is a very short one, extending only 50 or 60 yards from the counter-scarp; using general terms, it covers from the besiegers' view from one-half to one-third of the height of the walls of the place.
الصفحة 291 - The eastern face of the city rests on the Jumna, and during the season of the year when our operations were carried on, the stream may be described as washing the base of the walls. All access to a besieger on the river front is, therefore, impracticable. The defences here consist of an irregular wall with occasional bastions and towers, and about one-half of the length of the river face is occupied by the palace of the King of Delhi and its outwork, the old Mogul fort of Selimgurh.
الصفحة 18 - Before the mutiny broke out, the Moulvie travelled through India, on a roving commission, to excite the minds of his compatriots to the steps then contemplated by the master spirits of the plot. Certain it is that, in 1857, he circulated seditious papers throughout Oudh; that the police did not arrest him ; and, to obtain that end, armed force was required. He was then tried and condemned to death. But, before the sentence could be executed Oudh broke into revolt and, like many a political criminal...
الصفحة 27 - It is the more necessary that such mention should be made, because, whatever may be the opinion of Europeans saturated with the western ideas, and with the conceit those ideas often engender, there can be no doubt but that, during the Mutiny, on the morrow of the Mutiny, and at the present day, the cultivated natives of India attributed and attribute a great deal of the bitterness attendant on the uprising to the treatment meted out to Nana Sahib by the Government of India.

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