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Author : Mowbray Thomson
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Cawnpore (India)
ISBN : BL:A0019064090
Author : Mowbray Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1001082966
Author : Mowbray Thomson (Captain.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Cawnpore (India)
ISBN : NLS:B000242748
Author : Mowbray Thomson
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230402128
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE HISTORY OF THE NANA--'PERSONAL DESCRIPTION-- BITHOOR AND ITS PALACE--PROPITIATING THE GANGES-- AZIMOOLAH KHAN--HIS ADVENTURES IN ENGLAND. Among the peculiarities which have attached to the mutiny of 1857, one fact, which has greatly weakened the cause of the rebels, has been, that their ranks have not yielded one man of mental calibre and military skill sufficient to constitute him a great leader, and to draw the confidence of the natives around his banners. If, instead of being split up into factions, under a diversity of incompetent chiefs, as they have been, an Aurungzebe, a Hyder, or a Tippoo had made his appearance among the sepoys, the possession of India as an appendage to the British Crown would, in all probability, have required a reconquest rather than the treading out the scattered embers of mutiny by forced marches, which has been the task assigned to the army of Lord Clyde. Looking round upon the pretensions of the men who had assumed the command of the mutineers, we search in vain for one whose conduct has been instigated by motives of patriotism, or whose character will bear the slightest investigation. In some instances Mahommedan spite, in others imaginary personal grievances, and, in not a few, base ingratitude, have formed the only discernible motives of the disaffected chiefs who have taken up arms against us. The name most familiarly associated with the events of the mutiny is that borne by a man whose history is almost unknown out of India. And as Nana Sahib will always be identified with the sanguinary proceedings at Cawnpore, it will not be out of place to give the reader some idea of the antecedents of this notorious scoundrel. Seereek Dhoondoo Punth, or as he is now universally called the Nana...
Author : CAPT. MOWBRAY THOMSON
Publisher : VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Cawnpore
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This book can be downloaded as a PDF file from here. Brutalities inherent in a feudal language social system This is another book that should necessarily be read by the citizens of the new nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. All false and fancy beliefs of a great and noble civilisation in their antiquity will evaporate into thin air. This book contains real incidences that took place during the so-called First War of Independence in India(?), the so-called Sepoy Mutiny. Sepoy Mutiny was just that. Just a mutiny in a small area of the Indian Peninsula and English-ruled India. It was not a national struggle against the English rule. The real reasons for this outbreak against a very noble class of rulers is never mentioned in the modern history books. The real reason was the sociological changes that the presence of the English race was creating in the peninsula. The very seeing of the physical attributes and dignified stances of the English individuals were making the lower class people here aware of the potential and possibilities of human dignity if allowed to improve without fetters. However, this kind of mental improvement in the lower classes can be quite ennerving to the higher feudal classes, who hold their serfs in the non-tangible, yet quite crushing claws of feudal language codes. These codes hold the lower classes in a level of dirt and indignity by a web of pejorative and ennobling words and usages. This makes the higher class conspire to make use of the very liberated classes to pull down their own benefactors. In fact, this is not the first time, the English side was made the butt of similar brutal massacres. In the TRAVANCORE STATE MANUAL written by a native official of the erstwhile Travancore kingdom located at the southern tip of the Indian peninsula another similar incident is mentioned. But the Pillamars and Madampimars (petty chiefs) resented this act of the Rani, and in November 1697 A.D., the factory of Anjengo was violently attacked on the plea that the English were pirates, but without success. Mr. Logan writes: — “It may however be doubted whether this, their ostensible reason, was the true one, for as will presently appear, the presence of the English in Travancore was gradually leading to a revolution in that State”
Author : Mowbray Thomson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0282234640
Excerpt from The Story of Cawnpore Must have escaped my observation which would have been equally worth preserving with that which I have given. I trust that survivors, who fail to find any me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James W. Bancroft
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526718037
This history of the Siege of Cawnpore and the massacre of British noncombatants in Colonial India reveals the human side of the struggle. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the strategic garrison at Cawnpore was surprised by an extended siege. Many British noncombatants were holed up in a makeshift entrenchment, suffering from thirst, starvation and disease, all while being bombarded with cannon balls and bullets. After nearly two months, the company surrendered to the rebel leader Nana Sahib in exchange for safe passage out of the city. But when the survivors reached Sati Chaura Ghat, a landing on the River Ganges, they were massacred. Much has been written about the siege of Cawnpore and the political events which caused it, but there less known about the people who suffered the ordeal. In The Devil’s Trap, historian James Bancroft studies official documentation and primary sources from both sides to offer a more human understanding of events and shed light on the lives of the victims.
Author : J. E. Muddock
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368936310
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Author : J. E. Muddock
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387305692
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : D. S. Richards
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473813069
Following the May 1857 uprising by sepoys in Meerut and Delhi, the whole future of the British Raj was in the balance. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than at Lucknow and Cawnpore. At the latter a garrison of 240 with 375 British women and children battled to survive a siege by 3,000 mutineers led by Nana Sahib. Unimaginable horrors of artillery and sniper fire coupled with the crippling heat of the Indian summer took their toll. An offer of safe passage was treacherously reneged on and the massacres which followed drew a terrible retribution when relief finally arrived, in the shape of Generals Havelock and Neil. At Lucknow, the 1800 British men, women and children supported by more than 1,000 loyal sepoys resisted assaults by 20,000 mutineers, despite heavy casualties and sickness. Sir Colin Campbell's force got through to relieve the garrison and evacuate civilians in November 1857 but the city was not restored to British control until March 1858.These dramatic events are brought to life in this first rate history.
Author : Andrew Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : India
ISBN : 0719564107
This is the first full account of the siege and massacre at Cawnpore. In the maelstrom of India's Great Mutiny of 1857, the European garrison at Cawnpore survived starvation and bombardment only to die brutally on the eve of rescue. To avenge their deaths and reassert imperial will, thousands of Indians were hanged along the British line of march or tied to guns and blown to pieces. Courage, folly, rage, fanaticism, horror, fortitude - all can be found here. But this is not just a saga of bloodshed following upon bloodshed; it is a demonstration of an essential rite of imperial progress. The cycle of massacre and retribution at Cawnpore advanced the empire by drowning out its critics in the fire and brimstone of British vengeance.
Author : MOWBRAY. THOMSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103316318X
Author : Mowbray Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1846775736
A story of siege, massacre and survival Mowbray Thompson was an officer -stationed at Cawnpore with Wheeler's command within the Indian North Eastern province of Oudh during 1857-the year of the outbreak of the Great Indian Mutiny. The tiny Cawnpore garrison was soon attacked-principally by elements of the Native Bengal Army-and withdrew to occupy an entirely unsuitable and ultimately impossible to defend position. After a period of bloody battle, costly in the lives of soldiers and civilians alike the situation seemed hopeless. Then an offer of honourable surrender appeared to offer the miracle of salvation. But the nightmare of the defenders of Cawnpore was about to escalate to levels of unimagined horror. A series of atrocities was about to befall them that were so terrible that they would become a rallying cry for Blood Vengeance throughout the British empire. This is story of one man-told in his own words-who lived through those terrible days.
Author : Dick Donovan
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1340225484
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Author : George Otto Trevelyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436801273
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