A biographical sketch of sir Henry Havelock. Copyright ed1858 |
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1st Madras Fusiliers 78th Highlanders advance Allahabad Alum Bagh army arrived artillery attack battery battle Bithoor blessing Bombay brave British Cabool Calcutta camp Captain captured cavalry Cawnpore cheer Christian cloth Colonel column command comrades crown 8vo dear death defence despatch duty enemy enemy's entrenched faith father fear Ferozepore fight fire force fought Fusiliers Futtehpore gallant garrison God's ground heart heavy guns HENRY HAVELOCK honour hope hour Hugh Wheeler India infantry Jellalabad Jesus Christ Judson leave letter Lieutenant Lord loss Lucknow Marshman ment mercy miles military morning musketry mutineers Nana Sahib native never night officers Oude palace passed Persia Peshawur position prayer Punjaub reached regiment reinforcements relief religious Residency road round shot sepoys shot Sikhs Sikunder Bagh Sir Colin Sir Henry Sir James Outram soldiers Thuggee tion troops trust Unao victory village walls whilst wife Willoughby Cotton wounded
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Page 31 - The situation of the prisoners was now distressing beyond description. It was at the commencement of the hot season. There were above a hundred prisoners shut up in one room, without a breath of air excepting from the cracks in the boards. I sometimes obtained permission to go to the door for five minutes, when my heart sickened at the wretchedness exhibited. The white prisoners, from incessant perspiration and loss of appetite, looked more like the dead than the living. I made daily applications...
Page 288 - For more than forty years,' was his remark to Sir James, — ' for more than forty years I have so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without fear.
Page 31 - Mrs. Judson was the author of those eloquent and forcible appeals to the government which prepared them by degrees for submission to terms of peace, never expected by any who knew the hauteur and inflexible pride of the Burman court.
Page 220 - Brigadier-General Havelock, in making known to the column the "kind and generous determination of General Sir James Outram, " KCB, to leave to him the task of relieving Lucknow and rescumg " its gallant and enduring garrison, has only to express his hope that " the troops will strive, by their exemplary and gallant conduct in " the field, to justify the confidence thus reposed in them.