Identifier: indianempirehist02mart (find matches)
Title: The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868 Roberts, Emma, 1794?-1840
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Publisher: London, New York : The London printing and publishing company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Sikh Troops Dividing the Spoil Taken from Mutineers
& (3, ;)= ^ PLUNDER OF THE KAISERBAGH—MARCH 14th, 1858 479 palace was made on the 11th of March.The order, written hy General Mansfield, under Sir Colins direction., was, as usual, cold and ))recise, and exact as a hit ofEuclid.* Every conceivable contingency was foreseen and ))rt)vid(d for; arrangements being especially made for feeding the troops. But, for once, Sir Colin was not there to superintend the assault. A telegram had announced the approach of JungBahadur, and his official reception was deemed indispensable. Tlie Jung (^Ir.Russell remarks) did not possess the politeness of princes, and was one hour beyond the time he had appointed; and Sir Colin, in full uniform, paced up and down the state-tent fitted up for the occasion, and listened to the heavy, rolling fire of musketry which announced the com-mencement of the assault, as a hunter does to the distant cry of the hounds. His patience was almost exhausted, when Jung Bahadur, liis two half-brothers, anda staff of Goorkas,

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