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.
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ho confoundedthem with other natives.—April, 1858. § Jonrtial, p. 200. Major North does not furtherstale the manner of Neils death. The statement inthe text is the one given in the private correspondence issued, hoping that some of their shots mightenter the loopholes and avenge them forthe loss of their leader; and then pressedforward, their numbers diminishing beneaththe iron hail, and their progress im-peded by the bodies of the dying andthe dead. At length they reached the of the time, and also in the Memoir of Havefock,by the Rev. William Brock, who had access to thatgenerals private letters. Nevertheless, Rees affirms,that General Neil had actually arrived within ourintrenchments, when he heard that some of ourheavy guns were in jeopardy. He galloped outagain; but scarcely had he done so, when a bulletstruck him on the head, and he fell. Our gunswere, however, saved by the intrepidity of ourMadras regiment and Highlanders.—Sieye of Luck-now, p. 238. D. rn 9 15 C=n: — ?3 ^
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The Releief of Lucknow by General Havelock
DR. HOME AND HIS GALLANT COMPANIONS—SEPT. 26th, 1857. 421 Residency, and were received with a bnrstof eager, grateful welcome, which for a timebanished every feeling but that of uncon-trollable delight. Most musical were the notes of the bagr-pipe to every European ear in Lucknow;most gladdening the loud hurrah whichechoed and re-echoed from the variousdistinct garrisons within the defences. From every pit, trench, aiul battery—from behind the sand-bags piled on shatteredhouses—from every post still held by a fewgallant spirits, rose cheer on cheer—evenfrom the hospital.* Officers and men,friends and strangers, shook hands indis-criminately ; but when the soldiers saw theircountrywomen pouring forth to meet themwith their babes in their arras, and lookedupon the fair young faces flushed withexcitement, yet attenuated by the perilsand privation of an eighty-eight days siege;the big, rough-bearded men, who had neverquailed before the foe, sobbed with emotionas they seized and ki

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