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advance Agra Ahrab Allahabad Alumbagh arms arrived artillery asked attack battery Bithoor body boys British Captain Dunlop Captain Hodgson carried cavalry Cawnpore cheer Colonel Warrener column command crowd defenders Delhi Dick door enemy enemy's English fakir father fell fighting followed force forward G. A. HENTY garrison gate girls Gubbins guns halted hand Hargreaves Havelock head heard heavy Hindoo horses Hugh Wheeler hundred Illustrations India infantry intrenchments killed ladies lads look Lucknow Major Dunlop Major Warrener Meerut midshipman miles minutes morning musket musketry fire mutineers Nana Sahib native naval brigade Nelly night officers once Oude palace party passed Punjaub Ranee rebels regiment Residency river road rose round rush sentry sepoys shot shouted side siege siege of Delhi Sikh Sir Henry Lawrence soldiers stairs stood Stories tent took troops village wall Warrener's wounded yards
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