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Page 94
... Lahore . ] THE year 1857 - a year rendered memorable in the annals of British India for a rebellion before which the mutinies of Vellore in 1806 , and of Barrackpore in 1824 , dwindle into political insignificance - was but a few weeks ...
... Lahore . ] THE year 1857 - a year rendered memorable in the annals of British India for a rebellion before which the mutinies of Vellore in 1806 , and of Barrackpore in 1824 , dwindle into political insignificance - was but a few weeks ...
Page 96
... Lahore on the morning of the 11th of May , in so hurried and vague a form , however , that there was still reason to hope they might prove an exaggeration . But a telegraphic message on the fol- lowing morning shut out all such hope ...
... Lahore on the morning of the 11th of May , in so hurried and vague a form , however , that there was still reason to hope they might prove an exaggeration . But a telegraphic message on the fol- lowing morning shut out all such hope ...
Page 97
... Lahore they fell with portentous import . This vast city , the political capital of the Punjab , peopled by hereditary soldiers - Sikh and Mo- hammedan ; from the former of whom the spirit of the Singh Gooroo , and " the Baptism of the ...
... Lahore they fell with portentous import . This vast city , the political capital of the Punjab , peopled by hereditary soldiers - Sikh and Mo- hammedan ; from the former of whom the spirit of the Singh Gooroo , and " the Baptism of the ...
Page 98
... Lahore , it was felt that the peace of the whole Punjab probably de- pended ; and only a few hours re- mained in which it would be possible to counteract the plot and avert the catastrophe . In this emergency the original qualified ...
... Lahore , it was felt that the peace of the whole Punjab probably de- pended ; and only a few hours re- mained in which it would be possible to counteract the plot and avert the catastrophe . In this emergency the original qualified ...
Page 100
... Lahore . Though the danger which , as has been since discovered , threatened the posts and magazines of Ferozepore , Umritsur , and Phillour , was not then known , the value of these posts , and the im- portance of strengthening them ...
... Lahore . Though the danger which , as has been since discovered , threatened the posts and magazines of Ferozepore , Umritsur , and Phillour , was not then known , the value of these posts , and the im- portance of strengthening them ...
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