My journal, or what I did and saw between the 9th June and 25th November, 1857 : with an account of General Havelock's march from Allahabad to Lucknow / by a volunteer.

Date:
1858
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Credit: My journal, or what I did and saw between the 9th June and 25th November, 1857 : with an account of General Havelock's march from Allahabad to Lucknow / by a volunteer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man had a hole shot through his helmet. When we got up, we found our men deploying in a tope of trees, and the enemy in thousands deployed just ahead of us, and pouring in grape and cannister, which came crashing through the trees most unplea- santly, I can assure you. Our guns soon opened, the enemy’s gra- dually ceased ; and then there was a general advance, with constant cries for Volunteer Cavalry to go and secure two guns here and two there, till we had taken twenty of their guns, and sent them %ing as usual before us. We halted here for two or three hours in the hot sun, each man receiving his tot of rum, and a biscuit: when that was done, the Volunteer Cavalry again were sent on to see where the enemy were. We soon found them in position in Busseerutgunge about five miles off: so back we came, when the whole force advanced for another mile. I was sent out with a few men on the right flank to see what was doing there, and we actually got right behind our foes, and saw in the distance, over their heads, (for they were lying down under mounds of earth, or wherever they could, to get protection) the glitter from the bayonets of our jolly Infantry—the stand-by after all of our glorious army: so we thought it advisable to go back and re- port, and, by the time we did so, we found the engagement had commenced, and a vei-y pretty game at long bowls going on, which soon ended as usual in the general advance, the retreat of our cowardly foes, and the capture of the village with two guns. We went through the village, and encamped for the night; and next day for a change ble.w a couple of men away from guns, and hanged a third. I think we must have had in this engagement some 25 or 30,000 opposed to our 1200, of whom about 900 were Europeans. When God is with us, who shall be against us ? We remained where we were on the 30th; and on the 31st were ordered to march: but what was our surprise when instead of turning to the right we turned to the left, which took us back again to where we had started from! We re- tired to Mungawarrah, and encamped again. During the week n 2
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