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A Fly on the Wheel or How I Helped to Govern India

1885

The glories and wonders of Alexandria and Cairo; the crossing of the pathless duert sands strewn with skeletons of animals and shaped ass masses of rock over which we jolted heavily in our muldrawn vans ; the dry burning heat of the Red Sea and the moist clinging warmth of the Indian. [...] Soon after ten the sound of guns reached us as they attacked our position and the 88th and 82nd Regiments moved off to the left leaving us the 34th to hold some mud houses to skirmish to the front and to try and pick off some of the enemy's gunners. [...] on the bridge of boats with a battery of heavy guns'; but Sir Colin Campbell's horse artillery silen ced from the Lucknow bank of the river and the van of the main army crossed the river to 9' trenchment bringing the ladies and children rfrom Lucknow. [...] Towards the end of February Sir Colin Campbell having collected sufficient stores in the fortified camp' at the Alumbagh proceeded to send out flying columns to right and left with a view to dispersin'g the scattered parties of the enemy and concentrating the whole nest of hornets in Lucknow where he hoped to strike a final blow and end the capaign. [...] On the 2nd of November we held a soleipn fuldress parade when the Queen's proclarnation of amnesty to the rebels was read and the assumption of the direct sovereignty of India was proclaimed.
history
Pages
473
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142589
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v Thomas Lewin view
Chapter I. Looking Back. 1857-58
1-44 unknown view
Chapter II. Central India. 1859
45-83 unknown view
Chapter III. The Indian Police Service. 1861-62
84-107 unknown view
Chapter IV. Hazaribagh. 1862-63
108-127 unknown view
Chapter V. Hazaribagh (continued). 1863-64
128-155 unknown view
Chapter VI. Noacolly. 1864-65
156-183 unknown view
Chapter VII. Chittagong. 1864-65
184-224 unknown view
Chapter VIII. The Shendus. 1865-66
225-277 unknown view
Chapter IX. The Hill Tracts of Chittagong. 1866-67
278-314 unknown view
Chapter X. The Hill Tracts of Chittagong (continued). 1867
315-352 unknown view
Chapter XI. The Hill Tracts of Chittagong (continued). 1867-68
353-382 unknown view
Chapter XII. The Lushai Expedition. 1871-72
383-432 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Conclusion
433-465 unknown view

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