Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . tiny saysthat after the massacre at Cawnpore the soldiers dividedamong them the tresses of a murdered girl, and sworethat for every hair of her head one sepoy should die. Asfar as possible they kept their word. In Sir Colin Camp-bells relief of Lucknow and in the siege which has justbeen described, no quarter was given. If any fallensepoy ventured to ask it, Cawnpore ! was hissed in his 1/6 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. ear and the word was accompanied or instantly followedby a shot or the thrust of a b
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . tiny saysthat after the massacre at Cawnpore the soldiers dividedamong them the tresses of a murdered girl, and sworethat for every hair of her head one sepoy should die. Asfar as possible they kept their word. In Sir Colin Camp-bells relief of Lucknow and in the siege which has justbeen described, no quarter was given. If any fallensepoy ventured to ask it, Cawnpore ! was hissed in his 1/6 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. ear and the word was accompanied or instantly followedby a shot or the thrust of a bayonet. The siege and fall of Lucknow formed the prelude tothe end of the rebellion. There was considerable fightingin various parts of India during 1858 and early in the fol-lowing year, but the battles were of no great momentand an almost continuous series of defeats for the the autumn of 1858 the rule of the East India Com-pany came to an end, after an existence of more than twohundred and fifty years, and the control of the Indianempire passed to the British ^^^^^S^^^^^^^^^^^^^^EF^ CHAPTER XI. CAPTURE OF THE PEIHO FORTS AND PEKIN—1858-60. The empire of China claims an antiquity of about fivethousand years, but for the first thousand years of thisperiod its history is of a mythical character. Accordingto its chronology, one of its early rulers is said to havereigned one hundred and fourteen years, and another iscredited with the conduct of affairs for one hundred andforty years, duringwhich he introduced medical science andagriculture. Through many dynasties China was troubledwith external and internal wars, chiefly the latter, but inall ages down to the present she maintained her seclusionfrom the rest of the world. In the seventeenth century,the Dutch and other European nations endeavored togain admission to the country, but their efforts were suc-cessfully resisted, though they were allowed to trade un-der numerous restrictions in the waters near
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