Identifier: historyofindianm00holm (find matches)
Title: A history of the Indian mutiny and of the disturbances which accompanied it among the civil population;
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Holmes, T. Rice (Thomas Rice), 1855-1933
Subjects:
Publisher: London, New York, Macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
the fulness of his honest heart of the feelings which he boretowards me, and of the satisfaction with which he looked backto our past intercourse and service together, which had neverbeen on a single occasion marred by a disagreement of any kind,nor embittered by an angry word. At half-past ninenext morning he died.^ Soon afterwards the troopswith their convoy marched for the Alambagh. There Havelockwas buried. On the low plain by the Alumbagh,wrote a gallant soldier, one of the most distinguishedof Sir Colins officers, who has left us an unsurpassed record ofthe camj^aign, they made his humble grave; and Campbell,and Outram, and Inglis, and many a stout soldier who hadfollowed him in all his headlong march, and through the longfatal street, were gathered there to perform the last rites toone of Englands noblest dead. As long as the memory of great ^ Gubbins, p, 417. Dooly—a litter on which a sick or wounded soldier iscarried. 2 Marshman, pp. 444-6 ; Life of Outram, vol. ii. p. 278.
Text Appearing After Image:
London: MacniiUaJi & C? L . StojiforcCs Gmg^ :SstaJb^, LondoTu. 1857 FIRST TWO CAMPAIGNS OF SIR COLIN CAMPBELL 417 deeds, and high courage, and spotless self-devotion is cherished.imongst his countrymen, so long will Havelocks lonely tomb inthe grove beneath the scorching Eastern sky, hard by the vastcity, the scene alike of his toil, his triumph, and his death, beregarded as one of the most holy of the many holy spots whereher patriot soldiers lie. ^ Sir Colin was now anxious to start as soon as possible forCawnpore, as he had received no news from Wind- g^^ ^^^.^^ham for several days. He made up his mind to «et.s out torleave Outram to occupy the Alambagh, and holdthe rebels in check until he should be able to return and finallycrush them out of Lucknow. At eleven oclock on the morningof the 27 th he left the Alambagh with the convoy and an armyof some three thousand men. The low, tremulous sound whichtells a soldier that artillery are at work at some distant place,was plainly

Note About Images