It is on the records of our British Parliament, in papers sent home by the Governor-General of India in Council, that 'the aged, women, and children, are sacrificed, as well as those guilty of rebellion.1' They were not deliberately hanged, but burnt... A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 - الصفحة 268بواسطة Sir John William Kaye - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 2139عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Lajpat Rai (Lala) - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...were not deliberately hanged, but burnt to death in their villages — perhaps now and then accidently shot. Englishmen did not hesitate to boast, or to record their boastings in writings, that they had ' spared no one,' and that ' peppering away at niggers ' was very pleasant... | |
| Edward John Thompson - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 158
...the aged, women, and children, are sacrificed, as well as those guilty of rebellion.' They were not deliberately hanged, but burnt to death in their villages...' was very pleasant pastime, ' enjoyed amazingly.' " 1 The reader must be sickened with cruelties. I will give, without comment, merely a few 1Kaye, Book... | |
| Christopher Herbert - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...rampant burning of villages. "Englishmen," he writes in his own voice, "did not hesitate to boast . . . that they had 'spared no one,' and that 'peppering...niggers' was very pleasant pastime, 'enjoyed amazingly.' " In three months' time, says Kaye, citing another of the large exterminatory numbers that horrifically... | |
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