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Narrative of the Mutinies in Oude (Large Print Edition)
Narrative of the Mutinies in Oude - Large Print Edition Author:George Hutchinson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Futtehshah Khan escaped with his life, because he was a native, but after he was robbed of everything. He made his way to Setapore, and thence to Bareilly, wher... more »e, I make little doubt, he has been deep in rebel counsels, though he has not openly taken office. But his brother and uncle were respectively nazims of Bareilly and Budaon under Khan Bahadoor, and he is an able, ambitious man and a bigot too. There was only one European clerk at Baraitch, and he happened to be away on leave. When he arrived within a mile or two of Baraitch, on his return there, he heard the European officers had fled, and at once" took the road to Bulrampore, which he reached while I was there. DURKIABAD. This station had participated in the general uneasiness felt in the neighbouring stations, but up to the 8th of June no open opposition to the British Government had occurred, perilling the lives of the Christian community. He was executed on the reoccupation of Rohilcund 'for a treasonable letter addressed by him to Waladad Khan, of Malaghur. In May, the treasure had been ordered into Luck- now, but the sepoys, apparently, were not to be trusted, and the authorities feared hurrying them into revolt . Early in June great efforts were made to get the regiment there, the 5th Oude, to march with the treasure to Lucknow. On the evening of the 8th, the treasure was laden on carts and orders issued for marching. There is no reliable account of what immediately caused the outbreak, but it appears the Christian residents were apprized of it by the firing of musketry almost before the whole line of treasure carts had got out of the cantonments. The Europeans all managed to escape except two clerks, Messrs. Forbes and Wiltshire, who were taken prisoners by the sepoys, and after much insult and ill-...« less