A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858, volume 3
A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858, volume 3
Sir John William Kaye
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mined, therefore, as a first precaution, to diminish Maj. the number of detached posts, and so to mix up Euro- peans and Natives as to render the latter compara- tively innocuous. Under the old arrangements, the lives of all the European officers in the Cantonments were at the mercy of an insurgent soldiery; and a sudden rising in the city might have placed in the hands of rebels and rioters aU the treasure and all the stores of the English ; and the general spoliation might have been followed ...by a general massacre of our people. It was, therefore, determined that the Thirty-second should evacuate their barracks in the suburbs, where they were almost useless for purposes of defence ; that a large detachment of them should be posted in the Muriaon Cantonments, and the re- mainder quartered in those parts of the city which were selected as our chief points of defence- One of these was the British Residency, and the other the Mutchee-bhawun, which lay upon the main road high up the river, at a distance of about a mile from the Residency.
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