The Crisis in the Punjab from the 10th of May until the Fall of Delhi (1857).

Abstract

A vivid account of the first four months of the Mutiny, detailing the fate met by many mutinous regiments including the annihilation of the disarmed 26th Bengal NI by the author's command: "ten by ten the sepoys were called forth. Their names having been taken down in succession, they were pinnioned, linked together, & marched to execution; a firing party being in readiness ..." The sepoys behaved with honour & deportment, but when the executions had reached 237, the remainder refused to com ...