. Battles of the nineteenth century . ^ hadblown up tlie forts, and set the whole place onfire. The sight will neveE be forgotten by thosewho sav, it, as did the writer. The town inflames, great forts crumbling to pieces as though. <^\ SIR COLIN CAMPBELL (AFTERW.\RDSLORD CIVUE;. by magic, heavy columns of Russians crossingthe bridge under an incessant fire from the alliedbatteries. Peace with Russia had not long been signedwhen the British Empire was threatened in amost vulnerable place. For a time it seemed asthough we might lose India. The revolt of thenative or sepoy army out so s
. Battles of the nineteenth century . ^ hadblown up tlie forts, and set the whole place onfire. The sight will neveE be forgotten by thosewho sav, it, as did the writer. The town inflames, great forts crumbling to pieces as though. <^\ SIR COLIN CAMPBELL (AFTERW.\RDSLORD CIVUE;. by magic, heavy columns of Russians crossingthe bridge under an incessant fire from the alliedbatteries. Peace with Russia had not long been signedwhen the British Empire was threatened in amost vulnerable place. For a time it seemed asthough we might lose India. The revolt of thenative or sepoy army out so suddenly—itwas marked with such base treachery, disgracedby such cold-blooded atrocities—that the worldstill shudders at the details. The English wereeverywhere outnumbered ; our hold on India de-pended greatly on prestige ; implicit faith hadbeen in these ver}- mutineers. The forceof white troops at hand was verysmall ; ver} soon Upper Indiawas in the hands of the insur-gents : only here and there littlegroups, generally isolated and sur-rounded, fought with desperatecourage against overwhelmingodds, almost against hope. Nopage in our national annals ismore glorious than that whichenshrines the heroism of thosewh
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