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
Singh, Golab, 9
Singh, Rajah Maun, 12
Skinner, James, 315
Smith, 39, 313
⸺ Colonel, 59
⸺ Colonel Baird, takes charge of the engineering operations at
Delhi, 287, 301;
insists on the necessity of holding Delhi after the assault, 327
⸺ Major Percy, 354
Speke, 319
Spottiswoode, Colonel, 63
Spurgin, Captain, 75
Steel, Mrs., 294
Stephenson, 130
Stewart, Sergeant, 41 _et seq._
Stirling, 101
⸺ Major, 125, 134, 251
“Story of Two Noble Lives,” the, 287
Sullivan, Private, 121
Sutlej Campaign, 68
Swat, hills of, 294
Tantia Topee (the Nana’s general), 16, 371;
organises the Cawnpore massacre, 110;
controls its execution, 113;
narrow escape at the battle of Futtehpore, 128;
commands the Gwalior contingent, 239;
attacks Windham at Cawnpore, 244;
defeated by Sir Colin Campbell, 260
Teeka Sing, 138
Temple, Sir Richard, 9, 18;
interviews with the King of Delhi, 337
Terai, 51
Thomason, 51
Thomson, Mowbray, in the siege of Cawnpore, 100 _et seq._;
escapes the Cawnpore massacre, 117;
wounded, 118;
reaches British lines, 121
Thornhill, 51, 139
Times, the, 352
Timour, the House of, 335, 342
Tombs, Major, 283, 284, 289
Travers, Major, 220
Trevelyan, Sir George, 5, 12;
his “Cawnpore,” 7, 84 _et seq._
Trotter, Captain, “Life of John Nicholson,” 294, 295, 321
Tucker, Commissioner, 73
⸺ Robert, 78
Tulloch, 183
Turner, Captain, 118
Tyekhana at Lucknow, 178
Tytler, Fraser, assistant quarter-master-general to Havelock in the
advance on Cawnpore, 125;
with the Lucknow relief force, 189, 200;
at Havelock’s funeral, 236
Tytler, 277
⸺ Stanley Delhi Force, 277
Umballa, 44, 48, 53;
the base for Delhi, 270, 303;
council of war at, 273
Vibart, Colonel, interviews the King of Delhi, 19;
“The Sepoy Mutiny,” 37;
in the massacre at the Cashmere Gate, Delhi, 37-40
Vibart, Major, holds the Redan at Cawnpore, 98;
escapes to the boats, 112, 116;
death, 119
Wale, 350
Walpole, R., with Windham at Cawnpore, 251;
at the battle of Cawnpore, 255;
at the recapture of Lucknow, 351
Water Bastion at Delhi, 307, 311
Webster, 200
Wemyss, 319
Weston, Captain, 163
Wheeler, General Sir Hugh, his reassuring telegram to Calcutta as to
the safety of Cawnpore, 86;
hands over the Treasury to the custody of Nana Sahib, 86;
returns reinforcements to Lucknow, 88;
bad choice of position for defence of Cawnpore, 88-89, 263;
the siege, 90-110;
Sepoys attack his entrenchments, 93;
death of his son, 105;
appeals to Lawrence for help, 106;
the Nana offers him terms for surrender, 108;
capitulation of the garrison arranged, 109;
evacuates his entrenchments, 111;
his death in the massacre, 114
Whiting, Captain, 109, 118
Widdowson, Bridget, 102
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