The Tale of the Great MutinyFitchett, W. H. (William Henry)
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The Tale of the Great Mutiny
Fitchett, W. H. (William Henry)
India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858
Copenhagen, battle of, 349
Corbett, General, 56
Craigie, Lieutenant, 32
Crowe, Conductor, 41 _et seq._
Dalhousie, Lord, 12, 16, 108
Daly, Captain, with the Guides at Delhi, 278, 280, 284
Dawson, Captain, 232
Delafosse, Lieutenant, 99, 117, 119, 121
Delhi, 34-64;
description of, 34;
mutineers arrive from Meerut, 35, 265;
massacre at the Cashmere Gate, 36 _et seq._;
flight of survivors to Meerut, 40;
defence and explosion of the great magazine, 40 _et seq._;
Allahabad mutineers march to, 66
⸺ How the Ridge was held, 7, 9, 263-304;
Sir Henry Barnard gains the Ridge, 265;
arrival of Nicholson with the movable column, 272, 293 _et seq._;
reinforced by Daly with the Guides, 278;
plan to storm the city, 281;
attacks by the Sepoys, 283 _et seq._;
the battering-train arrives and the siege begins, 303
⸺ The leap on the city, 305-330;
examining the breaches, 305;
the great assault, 307 _et seq._;
inside the city, 316;
the fall of Delhi, 329
⸺, retribution, 331-345;
capture of the king’s palace, 332;
the king made prisoner by Hodson, 334;
Hodson shoots the three princes, 338-342
⸺ Bank, 36, 330
⸺ _Gazette_, 36
⸺ King of, 19, 34, 42, 333, 334
Dewan-i-khas, Delhi Palace, 333
Dilkusha Bridge, Lucknow, 351, 352
⸺ Park, Lucknow, 214
Dinapore, 189
Dobbin, Sergeant, 222
Donnelly, Lance-Corporal, 223
Doondoo Punth. See under Nana Sahib
Dost Mohammed, 271
Drelincourt’s “Preparation for Death,” 146
East India Company, 345
Edwardes, Sir Herbert, 10, 52, 53, 55, 268, 294, 296;
opposes the abandonment of Peshawur, 271
Edwards, Sergeant, 41
Elbe, river, 271
Ewart, Colonel (34th Native Infantry), 112
⸺ Mrs., 112
⸺ Colonel (93rd Highlanders), at the storming of the
Secundrabagh, 224 _et seq._
Eyre, Vincent, 192, 195, 350
Farquhar, 50
Fayrer, Sir Joseph, 51;
his brother’s death, 52;
at Lucknow, 154, 159, 174, 178;
at Chinhut, 157;
attends Sir Henry Lawrence, 169
Finnis, Colonel, 26, 46, 49
Fischer, Colonel, 51
Fisher, Mr., 61
⸺ Mrs., 61
Flagstaff Tower at Delhi, 38, 276, 283
Forbes, Archibald, 68, 125, 145, 187, 188, 195, 202, 203, 223
Forbes-Mitchell, 78;
with Sir Colin Campbell’s relief force, 212;
at the storming of the Secundrabagh, 220 _et seq._;
in the assault on the Shah Nujeef, 229 _et seq._;
at the battle of Cawnpore, 240, 257;
at the recapture of Lucknow, 352-362
Forest, Lieutenant, 38, 41, 43
Franks, Brigadier-General, 365, 366
_Friend of India_, 124
Fulton, Captain, garrison engineer at Lucknow, 182;
his journal quoted, 182-184
⸺ Mr., of Melbourne, 182
Futteghur, civilians take flight, 59;
their murder at Cawnpore, 60;
the revolt at, 60
Futtehpore outbreak, 78;
Tucker’s defence, 79, 126;
battle of, 128
Fyzabad, Moulvie of, 370, 371
Gabbett, 298
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