Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...my old corps going to fight at Delhi without me! I hope you will let me lead my old Sikh company into action again. I will break these two swords ill your cause.' Coke acceded to the old man's wish, and throughout the siege of Delhi he displayed the most splendid courage. At the great attack on the ' Sammy House ' on the 1st and 2nd August, when Lieutenant Travers of his regiment was killed, Kuttuu Sing, amidst a shower of bullets, jumped on to the parapet and shouted to the enemy, who were storming the piquet: ' If any man wants to fight, let him come here, and not stand firing like a coward! I am Kuttun Sing, of Patiala.' He then sprang down among the enemy, followed by the men of his company, and drove them off with heavy loss. On the morning of the assault the regiment had marched down to the rendezvous at Ludlow Castle, ' left in front.' While waiting for the Artillery to fire a few final rounds at the breaches, the men sat down, and, falling in again, were doing so ' right in front.' Ruttun Sing came up to Lieutenant Charles Nicholson, who was commanding the regiment, and said: ' We ought to fall in " left in front," ' thereby making his own company the leading one in the assault. In a few minutes more Kuttun Sing was mortally wounded, and Dal Sing, the Jemadar of his company, a man of as great courage as Ruttun Sing, but not of the same excitable nature, was killed outright.! 18S7 PRAISE FROM LORD CANNING 255 ' In the name of outraged humanity, in memory of innocent blood ruthlessly shed, and in acknowledgment of the first signal vengeance inflicted on the foulest treason, the Governor-General in Council records his gratitude to Major-General Wilson and the brave army of Delhi. He does so in the sure conviction that a like tribute...
