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It is related that in the absence of tangible enemies, some of our soldiery. who turned
out on this occasion, butchered a number of unoffending camp-followers, servants and
others who were huddling together, in vague alarm near the Christian Church Yard. No
Ioyalty, no fidelity, no patience, good service on the part of these good people could
extinguish, for a moment, the fierce hatred which possessed our white soldiers against
all who wore the dusky livery of the East, Kaye and Mallesons Indian Mutiny, Vol. II,
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brought to Nana Sahib. They were accused of being the bearers of letters supposed to
have been written to distant stations by the helpless women in prison. In the
correspondence, some of the Mahajans and Babboos of the city were believed to be
complicated. It was, therefore, resolved that the said spies together with the women and
children, as also the few gentlemen whose lives had been spared should all be put to
death. ----Narration of the Revolt page 113. One of the Christian prisoners in the prison
of Nana Sahib tells the same account and one of the Ayahs (nurses) deposes to the same
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The refinements of cruelty -the unutterable shame - with which, in some chronicles of

the day, this hideous massacre was attended, were but fictions of an excited
imagination, too readily believed without inquiry, and circulated without thought. None
was mutilated, none were dishonoured... This is stated, in the most unqualified manner
by the official functionaries, who made the most deligent inquries into all the
circumstances of the massacres in June and July -Kaye and Mallesons Indian Mutimy
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Fortified by the assurances of his creed, death to him was but a transition from the

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treasonable organisation, supplying men and money to the fanatical camp on the
frontier, that this organisation was the organisation of the Wahabis, and that one of the
wahabis arrested by Mr. Taylor, was the determined and resolute leader. He was
subsequently tried, convicted of treason and teansported to the Andaman.

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determined fanatic. Repulsive in appeaarance with a brutal and sullen countenance, he

was calm, self-possessed, almost dignified in language and demeanour. He is the type of
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whose stern resolution entitles them in some respects to admiration and respect.
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required. First it must be observed that, with the weak and unfinished defences which
we had to protect us, it would have been quite impossible for us to maintain the defence
for a single week, if we had been surrounded by a courageous enemy. When they
attacked, they lacked that determinous courage which faces dangers with resolution.
Brave men among them there were, no doubt and these were sacrificed in their attacks.
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and they lost their camp, their baggage and position to the scouted and despised natives
of India! The beaten English - as the enemy has now a right to call them, -have retreated
to their entrenchments amidst overturned tents, pillaged baggage, mens kits, fleeting
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faithful to him. We affect to disbelieve his legitimacy but the Zamindars who ought to be
better judges of the fact accept Birjis Kadir without hesitation. Will Government treat
these men as rebels or as honourable enemies. The Begum declares undying war against
us. It appears from the energetic characters of these Ranees and Begums -that they
acquire in their Zananas and Harems a considerable amount of actual mental power and
at all events, become able intrigants. Their contests for the ascendency over the minds of
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body by bayonets of some of the soldiers, while others collected fuel for a small pyre and
when everything was ready-- the man was roasted alive ! These were English men and
more than one officers saw it ! No one offered to interfere! The horrors of this internal
cruelty was aggravated by the attempt of the miserable wretch to escape when half
burned to death. By a sudden effort he leaped away, and with the flesh hanging from his
bones ran for a few yards before he was caught and brought back, put on the fire agan
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guns. But watch their movements, guard all the ghats on the rivers, intercept their
communication, stop their supplies, cut up their daks and posts, and keep constantly
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line of the walls and from the tower of the fort overlooking this site. For a time it
appeared like a sheet of fire, out of which burst a store of bullets, round shots and
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amidst the chaos of sounds of volleys, of musketry and roaring of cannon hissing and
bursting rockets, stink-pots, infernal machines, huge, it seemed as though pluto and the
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though he had actually opposed the British forces. The reason for this perversion of
honest dealing lay in the fact that in the palace of Kirvi was stored, the wherewithal to
compensate soldiers for many a hard fight and many a broiling sun. In its vaults and
strong rooms were special jewels and diamonds of priceless value. The wealth was
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their enemies. The manner in which they conducted their retreat could not be surpassed.
They remembered the lessons which the European officers had well taught them. Thers
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(Sir Hugh Rose) realised, moreover, the great danger which would inevitably be caused
by delay. No one could foresee the extent of evil possible if Gwalior were not promptly
wrested from rebel hands. Grant them delay, and Tatia Tope, with the immence
acquisition of political and military strength secured by the possession of Gwalior and
with all its resources in men, money and material at his disposal, would be able to form
a new army on the fragments of that beaten at Kalpi, and to provoke a Mahratta rising
throughout India. It might be possible for him using the dexterity of which he was a
master, to unfurl the peshwas banner in the Southern Mahratta districts. Those districts
were denuded of troops, and a striking success in central India would probably decide
their inhabitants to pronounce in favour of the cause for which their fathers had fought
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