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CHAPTER XII.
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Wheeler's intrenchment.-Windham's position.-The two
parts of an Indian station.-An imaginary review.—The
Cutchery. A Bedouin of the Press.-Generals cannot
do the graphic."-Bottled beer.-Members of our mess.
-School of dialectics.-Improved life of Europeans.
Want of sympathy for natives.-Up-country life and Cal-
cutta life.-Sir Hugh Wheeler's ayah.-Sir Archdale Wil-
son.-Captain Peel and his blue jackets.-Cawnpore dust.
-“A shave of old Smith's."-Cawnpore in its palmy
days.-Beggars and wigwam villages . 178
CHAPTER XIII.
Action at Meeangunj.-Sir Colin Campbell and Jung Baha-
door.-Hindoo temples mined.-Moonlight walk with Sir
Colin.-Notes on the birds.-A bad day for quadrupeds.—
Fishing in the Ganges.-Morning devotions.-Our first
haul.-Plan of attack on Lucknow.-General notion of
our plan of attack.-Astonishment of an old Sikh.-Scene
of the Cawnpore tragedy.-Divine service in the ruined
church.-A distant cannonade.-Reports of spies.-The
enemy in immense force.-The Adjutant-General.—A
near approach to ubiquity.-Camp of the Agra convoy.—
Rotting corpses
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CHAPTER XIV.
The army massing itself.-A living corpus delicti.-Sir J.
Outram attacked.—Buy a gharry, a horse, and coachman.
-Our army on the move.-Destruction of Hindoo tem-
ples.-Reply to a priest's intercession.-War, and no
quarter given. Indiscriminate executions.-Striking tents.
-Camels and their burdens.-A welcome invitation.-
Cross the Ganges into Oude.-An apparently illimitable
procession. A notion of Old World times.-" Master's
mess buckree."-Ruined villages.-Orders for marching
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The first bugle.-The head of the column.-Sunrise.—Bul-
locks, camels, and elephants.-The white mare.-Sinking
down into a gulf.—“ Are you kilt, sir ?"—A fast-trotting
camel.-False alarm.-Camp grass-cutters.-Sir William
Peel and his heavy guns.-Left behind.-Kavanagh.-A
joyful surprise.-Orders to march .
CHAPTER XVI.
March for Lucknow.-A vision.-Jellalabad.-Sepoy skele-
tons. An old Sikh officer.-Sergeant Gillespie.-Site of
our new camp.-The Martinière.-The Dilkoosha.-A
breach of etiquette.-View from the roof of the Dilkoosha.
-The enemy's trenches.-A round shot.-Striking beauty
of Lucknow.-A young langour.—Visitors and guests
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CHAPTER XVII.
A narrow escape.-Under fire.-A kind of club-meeting.—
Horsford and the yellow eunuch.-Personnel of our officers.
-Reconnoitring.-A prettily-adjusted brass shell.-Se-
poys' courage. The yellow eunuch again.-Floating bridge
across the Goomtee.-Habitual use of a telescope.-Ad-
vance of the enemy.—A brisk cannonade.—Brijeis Kuddr.
-Daily avocations.-General order from Bahadoor Khan.
-Fly-fishing.-A dignified retreat.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Sir Colin Campbell's plan of operations.-A beautiful sight.-
Unjust estimate of men's actions.-The enemy swarm.—
The Bays, the Artillery, and the Rifles.-The day's work
done.-Outram's camp.-The enemy active and unhappy.
-Little Miss Orr.-Preparations for Outram's advance.—
Kite-flying.-Warfare and cruelty.-Native milk-women.
-Outram's advance.-My Caubulee pony.-A terrible
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game of cricket.-The storming party.-"Pandy" and
"Smith."-Assault of the Martinière.-A canter to the
newly-gained post.-Butler, of the Bengal Fusileers.-
Pandy's deserted trenches.-Sikh barbarity.-The Begum
still undaunted
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CHAPTER XIX.
Outram's great success.-Jung Bahadoor's arrival announced.
-Poor Garvey !-The Begum Kothie.-The Maharajah's
reception. The Begum Kothie taken.-The rush of the
93rd.-Horrors ineffable.-The Secunderbagh.-General
Outram's camp.-" The Bayard of India."-The Badshah-
bagh. Cunoujee Lall.-An old curiosity shop.-Death of
Hodson.-Tremendous bombardment
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CHAPTER XX.
Capture of the Kaiserbagh.-The camp in commotion.-Voilà
la différence !-Marks of shot and shell.-Poor Da Costa !
-The Huzrutgunj.-Sappers at work.-Discipline after
an assault.-Drunk with plunder.—A camel-load of cu-
riosities.-Ready money transactions.-Presents of jewelry.
-Camp followers.-Simon and his scales.-Telegraphic
messages. Plundering stopped.-A zenana.-Dinner with
General Outram
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CHAPTER XXI.
No rest for the rebels.-The shattered Residency.-A plea-
sant chat. A capful of grape.-Street-fighting.-The great
Imambarra.-View from one of its minarets.-Shots from
all quarters.-A draught of nectar.-Barbarous act of an
officer.-Awful accident.-News from Jung Bahadoor.—
Pertinacity and Vacillation.-The Moosabagh.-Napier
in distress.-Lord Canning's Proclamation.-Rev. Mr.
McKay's sermons
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Lord Canning's Proclamation.-Visit to the begums.—Mrs.
Orr and Miss Jackson.-Frightful wounds of poor Bankes.
-The camp of the Seventh Hussars.-Sir James Outram
and Lord Canning.-Visit to Sir William Peel.-Munoora-
ood-dowlah. Our aides-de-camps.-The Chief Commis-
sioner of Oude.-My palkee and appurtenances sold.—
Sir James Outram's departure.-Doggerel verses and
charcoal sketches.-Routed by an elephant.-Sales of
captured property.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
My last days in Lucknow.-The soldier's goods and chattels.
-A palpable obstruction.-A night of great pain.-A
melancholy mode of progression.-Lord Clinton ill at
Cawnpore. The whole art of war.-Welcome repose.—A
Drive through Cawnpore.-Death of Adrian Hope.-Dis-
comfort of night-marches.-Joy to reach the camping-
ground. The lost tent.-The ruins of Kunouj.-Futteh-
guhr.-Brigadier Seaton.
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CHAPTER XXIV.
Dhuleep Sing's bath.-A savage, beastly, and degrading cus-
tom-The column filing off.-Told off to an elephant.-
Fields strewed with skeletons.-Junction with Walpole.-
An Indian storm.-A short but grateful sleep.-Difficulty
of keeping Highlanders back.-Sir William Peel no more!
-An English soldier and his "presner."-Desperate kick
from a horse.-Mounted on a tumbril.—A day of drowsy
pain. More dooly travelling.-General Penny killed.—
Disaster at Kukrowlee.-Halt near Shahjehanpore.-Ride
through the city.-Sea of mango groves.-Conflicting re-
ports from Bareilly.-Bamboo backsheesh.-Expected
engagements
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