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

1895

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 I write could all talk of the victories of Lords Lake and Combermere and the Caubul war of 1840-42 and the younger hands could tell us of the victories of Lords Gough and Hardinge in the Punjab. [...] Kavanagh's gallant deed and that fact has made me as a soldier of the relieving force put on record my impressions of the great value of the service he 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. [...] If I were a millioaire I would myself erect a statue to Sir Colin Campbell on the spot where the muster-roll of the Ninety-Third was called on the east of the gate of the Secundrabagh with a life-sized figure of a private of the Fifty-Third SY General Evart 61 and Ninety-Third a sailor and a Sikh at each corner with the names of every man who fell in the assault on the 16th of November 1857
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Pages
307
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145145
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Frontmatter
i-xii William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter I. The Ninety-Third—Sail for China—Counter-Ordered to Calcutta—Arrival in India
1-8 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter II. March up Country—Fuitehpore—Cawnpore
9-25 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter III. Start for Lucknow—Sir Colin—the Dilkoosha —Martiniere—Secundrabagh
26-50 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter IV. The Ninety-Third—Anecdotes of the Secundrabagh—General Ewart—the Shah Nujeef
51-73 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter V. Personal Anecdotes—Capture of the Shah Nujeef —a Fearful Experience
74-93 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter VI. Breakfast under Difficulties — Long Shots —the Little Drummer—Evacuation of the Residency by The Garrison
94-113 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter VII. Bagpipes at Lucknow—a Bewildered Baboo—The Forced March to Cawnpore—Opium—Wyndham’s Mistake
114-134 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter VIII. Anecdotes—Action with the Gwalior Contingent—its Defeat—Pursuit of the Nana—Bithoor John Lang and Jotee Pershad
135-159 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter IX. Hodson Of Hodson’s Iiorse—Action at the Kaler Nuddee—Futtehghur
160-171 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter X. The Strange Story of Jamie Green
172-193 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter XI. The Siege of Lucknow—Sir Colin Appointed Colonel of the Ninety-Third—Assault on the Martiniere —a “Rank” Joke
194-204 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter XII. Assault on the Begum’s Kothee—Death of Captain Mdonald—Major Hodson Wounded-his Death
205-218 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter XIII. Jung Bahadoor—Gunpowder—the Mohurrum at Lucknow—Loot
219-230 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter XIV. An Ungrateful Duty—Captain Burroughs—The Dilkoosha Again—General Walpole at Rooyah —The Ramgunga
231-251 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Chapter XV. Battle of Bareilly—Ghazis—a Terrible Accident Halt at Bareilly—Actions of Posgaon Russool-pore and Nowrungabad—Rest at Last!
252-270 William Forbes-Mitchell view
Appendices
271-295 William Forbes-Mitchell view

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