Gather A Personal Narrative Of The Outbreak And Massacre At Cawnpore, During The Sepoy Revolt Of 1857; During The Sepoy Revolt Of 1857 Curated By W.J. Shepherd Textbook

historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index, Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher,. Not illustrated. Excerpt: on to Cawnpore, where the poor man was killed by order of the Nana, "Poor Mrs. Carter was kept a prisoner under a guard of "theth Cavalry, and after passing the perils of childbirtha girl "born on theth Juneshe appears to have Been treated by the "Paishwa's widows with consideration and even with kindness, who "possessed the softer and kindlier feelings of womanhood, especially "towards a suffering and unfortunate member of their sex.
But to the "Nana pity was

unknown, revenge precious, even though expended "on a weak and helpless woman and unconscious babe and though "at first overlooking his poor captive, whilst occupied in preparing "for the safety of his own miserable life, he did not allow himself "to forget her entirely.
" CHAPTER IX. I Will now relate what occurred among the prisoners at Putkapoor, When the sepoys of the guard found, on the evening of theth July, that the station was deserted by the rebel army, and that a large portion of the population of the city was gone, they also made arrangements to leave, by bringing out their clothes and traps and making them into bundles.
The subadar's pony was saddled, and at about candlelight they rose to start, The prison door had been kept locked since eight o'clock that morning for fear of some, if not all, of the prisoners taking advantage of the confusion and running away, the subadar kept the key of the lock with him, and thus we got no water to drink all that day.
Now, when the prisoners saw that they were about to be thus abandoned, they gave a tremendous shout, and used certain expressions, implying that the sepoys would for ever be cursed if they left them thus shut up in this prison.
This had its effect the subadar returned, and made arrangements with a burkundauz to sit at the door a,