. 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: . nearly twenty miles before this four hours engagementcommenced. The march upon Cawnpore was resumed, but on the 15th thevictors were twice encountered by the rebels, first at the village of Aong,and afterwards at the bridge over the Pandoonudee, eight mUes from Cawn-pore. In both engagements the revolted sepoys were completely routed,and Havelock pressed forward. The advance of General Havelock wasretarded by a rebel army
. 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: . nearly twenty miles before this four hours engagementcommenced. The march upon Cawnpore was resumed, but on the 15th thevictors were twice encountered by the rebels, first at the village of Aong,and afterwards at the bridge over the Pandoonudee, eight mUes from Cawn-pore. In both engagements the revolted sepoys were completely routed,and Havelock pressed forward. The advance of General Havelock wasretarded by a rebel army of five thousand men posted behind some villagesm front of Cawnpore; but by a few skilful manoeuvres, and the gallant daringof the 78th Highlanders, the enemy, although so greatly superior in numbers,and notwithstanding their desperate attempts to rally, were driven at everypoint from their positions and guns, and sent fleeing in wild confusion. The British entered Cawnpore in triumph, but they found nothing butthe slaughter-house, on the walls of which the blood of the murdered was stillwarm, the well in which their limbs were still quivering with the recent death-. SiR Henry Havelock (1795-1857) 184 THE HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA [1857-1858 ] agony. It was a sight over which the brave conquerors wept like women,until their tears were dried up by the burning desire of vengeance. Wherevera rebel was caught, unless he could prove his innocence of the deed, he wasinstantly hanged. As for the chief rebels, they were compelled, previously,to cleanse a certain portion of the pool of blood, that was still two inchesdeep, where the murders had taken place — for to touch blood was, withhigh-caste natives, to incur damnation, however plentifully they might causeit to shed — and when they shrank back in abhorrence, the lash of the pr^vost-marshal drove them forward to the task. No one, writes Havelock indig-nantly, who has witnessed the scenes of murder, mutilation, and massacre,ca
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