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Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the Relief Siege and Capture of Lucknow and the Campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude

1897

We had two tug steamers the Belleisle being considered too large for a single tug of the horspower of those days ; and the pilot and tug commanders all sent bundles of the latest Calcutta papers on board from which we learned the first news of the sieges of Delhi and Lucknow of the horrible massacre at Cawpore and of the gallant advance of the small force under Generals Havelock Neill [...] Mark my words and rmember them when I am dead and buried." Strange to say on the 16th of November Henderson was severely wounded at the taking of the Shah Nujeef died in the retreat from Lucknow on the evening of the 20th of November and was buried on the banks of the-Ganges just opposite the bridge of boats at Cawnpore. [...] The elder men at the time of which T write could all talk of the victories of Lords Lake and Comberniere and the Caubul war of 18-1042 and the younger hands could tell us of the victories of Lords Gough and hardinge in the l'unjilb. [...] There had been no time to complete a survey of Lucknow and its surroundings and cosequently the Commander-in-Chief had no plan of the city and there was no officer in the force or for that matter no European outside the Residency who knew the strong positions of the enemy or the intricacies of the streets. [...] Kavanagh's gallant deed and that fact has made me as a soldier of the relieving force put on record my impressions of the beat value of the service h3 rendered at a most critical juncture in the fortunes of the country.' By the afternoon of the 12th of November the total 1 Kavanagh was a European clerk in one of the newly-instituted Government offices.
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Pages
365
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United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146529
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Frontmatter
i-xii William Mitchell view
Chapter I The Ninety-Third—Sail for China—Counter-Ordered to Calcutta—Arrival in India
1-8 William Mitchell view
Chapter II March up Country—Futtehpore—Cawnpore
9-25 William Mitchell view
Chapter III Start for Lucknow—Sir Colin—the Dilkooshá—Martinière—Secundrabâgh
26-50 William Mitchell view
Chapter IV The Ninety-Third—Anecdotes of the Secundrabâgh—General Ewart—The Shâh Nujeef
51-73 William Mitchell view
Chapter V Personal Anecdotes—Capture of the Shâh Nujeef—A Fearful Experience
74-93 William Mitchell view
Chapter VI Breakfast under Difficulties—Long Shots—The Little Drummer—Evacuation of the Residency by the Garrison
94-113 William Mitchell view
Chapter VII Bagpipes at Lucknow—A Bewildered Bâboo—the Forced March to Cawnpore—Opium—Wyndham’s Mistake
114-134 William Mitchell view
Chapter VIII Anecdotes—Action with the Gwalior Contingent—its Defeat—Pursuit of the Nânâ—Bithoor—John Lang and Jotee Pershâd
135-159 William Mitchell view
Chapter IX Hodson of Hodson’s Horse—Action at the Kâlee Nuddee—Futtehghur
160-171 William Mitchell view
Chapter X The Strange Story of Jamie Green
172-193 William Mitchell view
Chapter XI The Siege of Lucknow—Sir Colin Appointed Colonel of the Ninety-Third—Assault on the Martinière—A “Rank” Joke
194-204 William Mitchell view
Chapter XII Assault on the Begum’s Kothee—Death of Captain M’donald—Major Hodson Wounded—His Death
205-218 William Mitchell view
Chapter XIII Jung Bahâdoor—Gunpowder—the Mohurrum at Lucknow—Loot
219-230 William Mitchell view
Chapter XIV An Ungrateful Duty—Captain Burroughs—the Dilkooshâ Again—General Walpole at Rooyah—the Râmgunga
231-251 William Mitchell view
Chapter XV Battle of Bareilly—Ghâzis—A Terrible Accident—Halt at Bareilly—Actions of Posgaon Russoolpore and Nowrungabad—Rest at Last !
252-270 William Mitchell view
Appendix A The History of the Murder of Major Neill at Augur in 1887
271-277 William Mitchell view
Appendix B Europeans Among the Rebels
278-285 William Mitchell view
Appendix C A Few Words on Sword-Blades
286-291 William Mitchell view
Appendix D The Opium Question
292-295 William Mitchell view
A Classified Catalogue of Books in General Literature
1-50 William Mitchell view
Index
51-56 William Mitchell view

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