. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . both gentlemen and ladies, as had escaped the first onset of the mur-derers, endeavoured to find a rallying point, for either shelter or an honourabledeath, and the greater part repaired to the Flagstaff Tower, in front of thecantonments, where a company of the 38th native infantry and two gunswere stationed. But it had to be abandoned by its inmates, who retreated, 172 THE HISTOEY OF BRITISH INDIA [1857-1858 ] some to
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . both gentlemen and ladies, as had escaped the first onset of the mur-derers, endeavoured to find a rallying point, for either shelter or an honourabledeath, and the greater part repaired to the Flagstaff Tower, in front of thecantonments, where a company of the 38th native infantry and two gunswere stationed. But it had to be abandoned by its inmates, who retreated, 172 THE HISTOEY OF BRITISH INDIA [1857-1858 ] some to Kernoul, and others to Meerut. Another attempt was made tohold a small fortified bastion called the Mainguard, within the Kashmir gate,that was soon filled not only with men, but with women and children, andreinforcements were sent for from the cantonments; but at five oclock thetreacherous guards, on whom they had depended, suddenly opened fire uponthem, and commenced a massacre from which only a few escaped. Even thepalace, to which many of the Europeans fled, was no protection. There satthe old titular sovereign, weighed down but not softened by the load of more. Great Arch and Iron Column, Old Delhi than fourscore years; there, too, were his sons, to give active spirit to hisrelentless apathy, and encourage the murders that were perpetrated in hisname; and all who fled to its courts in the vain hope of safety, or were alluredthither by promises of protection, were there murdered, not only, as wasalleged, by the express commands of the princes, but even in their very pres-ence. Within a day or two not a British resident was left alive in Delhi. MUTINY FORESTALLED IN THE PUNJAB While the conflagration was thus kindled in which the whole IndianEmpire was so soon to be enveloped, the electric wires which extended acrossHindustan from Calcutta to Lahore, with branch lines to the principal mili-tary and civil stations, were in active operation. Wlien the tidings arrivedat Lahore
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