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Cassell’s Illustrated History of India
1890
Summary
The first portion of our army crossed the Ganges on the 4th of February 1858 but the whole were not over until the 28th when the head-quarters were established at Buntara; but operations did not actually commence till the 2nd of March when Sir Colin starting in the grey dawn with the second division of infantry a strong force of artillery and cavalry marched eastward of the Alumbagh and men [...] course and then endeavour to penetrate westward and secure the command of two bridges one of iron and the other of stone which gave access to the city from the north the latter being opposite a street that lies between the Muchee Bhawn and the Great Imambara ; and hence he was to turn the works thus referred to by Sir Colin :— The series of courts and buildings called the Kaisebagh conside [...] The second line circled round the large building called the Mess House and the Motee Mahal ; and the first or interior one was the principal rampart of the Kaiserbagh the rear of the enclosures of the latter being closed in by the city through which approach would have been dangerous to an assailant. [...] Among the slain was the gallant Hodson the captor of the King of Delhi and young Moorsom of the sand one of the most promising officers in the service.* On the x gth the Moosabagh which was occupied by 7 000 of the rebels and was their last stronhold fell to the British. [...] It was unfortunate that by some mismanagment on the part of one of our commanders Sir Colin was deprived of the full fruit of his victory by the escape of the greater part of the mutineers with their leaders.* He invited the return of the fugitive inhabitants ; but it was ipossible to restrain the victorious and ' justly infuriated soldiers from the rich plunder of the great city of which
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