A History of the Indian Mutiny And of the Disturbances Which Accompanied It Among the Civil Population

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There, within those miserable defences, they could still bear themselves in a manner worthy of their motherland. Sadly then, but resolutely they waited for the threatened attack. For a time there was no sign of its coming ; for the rebels were busy 1857 CAWNPORE 229 gorging themselves with the plunder of the city, insulting re- spectable natives, and murdering the stray Europeans who had not put themselves under Wheeler's protection. But towards ten o'clock flames were seen rising here and ther...e above the nearest quarter of the city : presently the crack of musketry was heard, and now again more plainly : armed men were descried hurrying confusedly over the canal bridge : nearer and nearer they came, and now they were pouring into the lines : a puff of smoke arose; a round shot came crashing into the entrenchment; the garrison were swift to answer the challenge; the bugle sounded ; the defenders fell in at their appointed posts ; and the cries of terrified women and startled children, mingling with the roar of the contending artillery, proclaimed that the siege of Cawnpore had begun.^ It was indeed a tragic moment in the world's history ; for never, since wars began, had a besieged garrison .

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