By V. A. Stuart
Meticulously researched and traditionally exact, this depiction of the tragic tale from the Indian Mutiny resonates within the struggles opposed to spiritual fanaticism of our personal time. excessive and encouraging, it describes the heroism of a handful of British squaddies and civilians who faced swarms of vengeful sepoys and all yet hopeless odds in the course of the eyes of the characters Sheridan and his spouse Emmy.
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It’s within musket range, they could make things devilish hot for us—but you pointed that out, I imagine? If our drinking well comes under musket fire, there will be hell to pay and—” “I used every argument, Alex, and Francis Whiting backed me up. The brigadier wouldn’t listen. The railway gentlemen are in occupation of Numbers Five and Six, and he told me to leave it to Heberden and Latouche, who have apparently said they can hold both without military aid. The general has agreed to leave the barrack blocks to them, so .
The British rifles spoke and spoke again with scarcely a pause and, with the range rapidly shortening, few missed their target. The native Christian boys scrambled pluckily for the discarded rifles, loading and ramming like veterans, and the men behind the parapet used their weapons to deadly effect, their weariness forgotten in the heat and stimulus of battle. The front line of sepoys faltered, as man after man went down under a raking hail of accurate and rapid fire; it reformed briefly, to advance a few more yards, only to break when the leading sepoys glimpsed the bristling bayonets and Alex, recklessly mounting the parapet, emptied his Adams pistol into their fleeing backs.
He turned away with a resigned shrug. “Well, perhaps now that the matter has been brought to General Wheeler’s attention, something will be done about it—my previous approaches on the subject were made, as I told you, to the station commander. And he, evidently sharing Wheeler’s belief that the only attacks we • 38 • Massacre at Cawnpore should have to ward off would be from the city riff-raff, wasn’t anxious to destroy Company property. I’d like to see all the blocks we can’t occupy laid flat and be damned to whose property they are!