A missing chapter of the Indian mutiny / by Charles Lionel Showers.

  • Charles Lionel Showers
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A missing chapter of the Indian mutiny / by Charles Lionel Showers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    respect to events within the Meywar States as yet untold. These documents may afford some clue further to the miscarriage of my reports in transmission through the office of the Agent Governor-General, Colonel Lawrence, who, at the period in question, had been promoted to the superior office on the transfer to Lucknow at that juncture of his brother Sir Henry Lawrence. I forbear, however, to obtrude them on the reader at the opening of my narrative, and thus detain him from the perusal of stirring events and incidental epi- sodes which I venture to hope may prove not without interest. The documents in question, then, I refer to in a Supplementary Chapter, appending vouchers, and will ask the reader to turn to it before closing the book for matter of exposition as well as of general interest. Few incidents of the period could exceed in pathos the late Sir Henry Lawrence’s dying appeal to the Maharana of Oodeypore, which closes the chapter.
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