This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...drums began again, and they calmly stood till we came up and poured a few volleys into them. There was not a Sepoy in the war who did not feel ashamed of himself. The prisoners were for the most part wounded men. They upbraided us with fighting against them. They always said it was with the Bengalis they were at war, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...drums began again, and they calmly stood till we came up and poured a few volleys into them. There was not a Sepoy in the war who did not feel ashamed of himself. The prisoners were for the most part wounded men. They upbraided us with fighting against them. They always said it was with the Bengalis they were at war, not with the English. If a single Englishman had been sent to them who understood their wrongs, and would have redressed them, they declared there would have been no war. It is not true that they used poisoned arrows. They were the most truthful set of men I ever met; brave to infatuation. A lieutenant of mine had once to shoot down seventy n Personal Narrative of Major Jervis. A TEMPORARY LULL. five men before their drums ceased, and the party fell back.' By the middle of August these energetic measures had driven the insurgents from the plains. A proclamation was therefore issued, offering pardon to all except the leaders; and the civil officers, jealous of even the partial authority given to the military, represented that the necessity for continuing that authority had ceased. 'All has been quiet, ' wrote the Beerbhoom magistrate, 'for seven weeks past The villagers have returned to their homes, and the husbandmen are engaged in the cultivation of their land as usual. The Santals are nowhere to be found, .... having retreated to a place some thirty miles off, in another district.'80 But the lull was only temporary, and precisely one month later we find the same officer reporting that 'during the past fortnight upwards of eighty villages have been plundered and burnt by the insurgents, '81 the mails stopped, and the whole of the north-west part of the district in their hands. In one direction an army of Santals roved through the district three t...
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