HAVELOCK AND OUTRAM

1. After they had butchered all the women and kids, killed the men on the barges(below)they then went elsewhere for blood. This was not a mutiny but the full rendered display of soldiers and scavengers who had lost any humanity.One can undersytand the mutiny but not the methods of killing women and kids.
3. LUCKNOW WAS ATTACKED, FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 1857.ALL TOOK REFUGE IN THE RESIDENCY, ABOUT 900.
4. 10,000 Mutineers beseiged Lucknow.Terror, the women weeping, all seemingly lost. But a man called Henry Havelock was making a forced march to relieve the sufferers; a 1000 men , the hottest weather, he scored three victories on his way and on his way was CAWNPORE. On the 17th of July he saw the remains of the women, the children, and the ground still soaked in blood. He saw the Horror that had taken place. Cholera had attacked his troops, dysentery too,Havelock travelled on and he scored another
5. victory.Urged to press on to Lucknow he decided he must turn back to Cawnpore, his small force was decidely short of ammo.He was replaced by Outram but Outram knew the worth of Henry Havelock, it had taken courage to turn back. Sir James Outram then stood down in honour of the great Havelock the honour of storming Lucknow. But because of numbers it was obvious that Lucknow could only be reinforced not taken.
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   MC1	Hadendowah with Spear
   MC2	Hadendowah with Sword
   MC3	Hadendowah firing Rifle
   MC4	Hadendowah Standard Bearer
   MC5	Dervish with Spear
   MC6	Dervish with Sword
   MC7	Dervish firing Rifle
   MC8	Dervish Standard Bearer
   MC9	Dervish Emir on foot
   MC10	Dervish Cavalry with Spear. H3. H4
   MC11	Dervish Cavalry with Sword. H3. H4
   MC12	Dervish Cavalry with Rifle. H3. H4
   MC13	Dervish Cavalry with Standard. H3. H4
   MC14	Dervish mounted Emir. H3. H4
   MC15	Dervish Camelry with Spear. H1. H2
   MC16	Dervish Camelry with Sword. H1. H2
   MC17	Dervish Camelry with Rifle. H1. H2
   MC18	Dervish Camelry with Standard. H1. H2
   MC19	Dervish Artilleryman with Shell
   MC20	Dervish Artilleryman with Ramrod
   MC21	Dervish Artilleryman standing
   MC22	Dervish Artillery Commander
   MC23	Dervish Gunner for Gatling Gun
   MC24	Dervish with Ammunition for Gatling Gun
   MC25	Dervish Artillery Rider

   NOT FORGOTTEN
   
   In a country where they are so concerned abot their citizens that they let them die of hunger on the streets this is what came out of India recently.
7. They came in peace to commemorate the thousands who died in the Indian Mutiny 150 years ago.

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   But when a British tour party arrived in the northern city of Lucknow - scene of one of the mutiny's most brutal battles - their reception was far from peaceful.
   
   Chanting anti-British slogans, an angry mob pelted their tour bus with rubbish and dirty water before laying 
   siege to the group's hotel.
   The building was last night barricaded by police after the visitors received death threats.
   The party of around 40 Britons - many of them elderly and some of them descendants of those killed in 1857 - were unable to leave as scores of nationalist protesters shouted "English go home" and called them 
   "descendants of savages".
   So deep was their illfeeling that one Hindu leader even called for the tourists to be executed.
   Anil Tiwari, a member of the World Hindu Council in Lucknow, said: "These visitors should be hanged from a tree and their bodies put on the first flight out of India.
   Muslim clerics joined their arch enemies - Hindu fundamentalists - in saying they would allow no "celebration" of the anniversary.
   Hugh Purcell, a historian with the group, was dismayed by the reception the visitors had received.
   "Media reports spoke of how we were conducting a 'victory celebration' when all we were doing was commemorating the event," he said.
   "We are disappointed, embarrassed and feeling harassed. We are all deep lovers of India and came here in a spirit of inquiry and respectfulness."
   He said the visitors were coping "stoically" and that older women on the trip, one aged 80, were "solid memsahibs with a stiff upper lip".
   "Frankly, it hasn't been much of a holiday," he added.
   Dr Rosie Llewellyn- Jones, a writer with the group, said: "We want to understand the Indian point of view and to remember the brave dead on both sides."
   The trouble for the tour party - which is made up of Britons with links to the Rifles regiments, historians, and descendants of military families - started as soon as they arrived in India ten days ago.
   Protesters stormed the lobby of their hotel in Agra in the north and an angry mob also greeted them when they travelled south to Gwalior.
   They finally arrived in Lucknow on Monday. The Siege of Lucknow was one of the key events in the rebellion. When it finally ended in 1858, thousands of Indians and Britons had died, including Lucknow's Chief Commissioner Sir Henry Lawrence.
   Last night his great-great grandson, also called Sir Henry Lawrence, 55, was among those caught up in the modern-day siege at the Residency Hotel.
   Also on the trip is Sir Mark Havelock-Allan, a senior judge whose great-great grandfather was Major-General Henry Havelock. He led a relief force during the siege but died in the city from exhaustion and dysentery days after it ended.
   His statue now stands in Trafalgar Square.
   The group were yesterday unable to fulfil their plan to visit a graveyard where some 2,000 Britons are buried.
   Today they will try to leave for Kanpur, where the bodies of more than 100 slaughtered English women and children were thrown into the Ganges.
   "They have no business honouring their dead when so many Indians were massacred so ruthlessly."
   
   
   
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   BRITISH ARMY 1896-1902
   MC26	Infantryman advancing
   MC27	Infantryman firing
   MC28	Infantryman prone
   MC29	Infantry Officer
   MC30	Infantry Bugler
   MC31	Highlander advancing
   MC32	Highlander firing
   MC33	Highlander prone
   MC34	Highland Officer
   MC35	Highland Piper
   MC36	Mounted Infantryman kneeling firing
   MC37	Mounted Infantry Officer on foot
   MC38	Lancer. H7. H8
   MC39	Cavalry Trooper. H7. H8
   MC40	Mounted Officer. H7. H8
   MC41	Mounted Bugler. H7. H8
   MC42	Mounted Infantryman. H7. H8
   MC43	Camel Corps Trooper. H5. H6
   MC44	Camel Corps Officer. H5. H6
   MC45	Camel Corps Bugler. H5. H6
   MC46	Dismounted Camel Corps Trooper
   MC47	Dismounted Camel Corps Officer
   MC48	Dismounted Camel Corps Bugler
   MC49	Artilleryman standing
   MC50	Artilleryman kneeling
   MC51	Artilleryman sighting
   MC52	Artillery Officer with Binoculars
   MC53	Maxim Gunner
   MC54	Limber Rider
   MC158	Maxim Gun and Gunner

   
   
   

   EGYPTIAN/SUDANESE ARMY
   MC55	Infantryman advancing
   MC56	Infantryman firing
   MC57	Infantry Officer
   MC58	Infantry Bugler
   MC59	Mounted Officer. H7. H8
   MC60	Egyptian Lancer. H7. H8
   MC61	Egyptian Bugler. H7. H8
   MC62	Egyptian Camel Corps Trooper. H5. H6
   MC63	Egyptian Camel Corps Officer. H5. H6
   MC64	Egyptian Camel Corps Bugler. H5. H6
   MC65	Dismounted Egyptian Camel Corps Trooper
   MC66	Dismounted Egyptian Camel Corps Officer
   MC67	Dismounted Egyptian Camel Corps Bugler

   
   
   

   ZULU CAMPAIGNS
   MC68	Zulu, unmarried, thrusting with Assegaii
   MC69	Zulu, unmarried, throwing Assegaii
   MC70	Zulu, unmarried, with Knob-kerrie
   MC71	Zulu, unmarried, firing Rifle
   MC72	Zulu, unmarried, advancing with Rifle
   MC73	Zulu, IsiCoco, thrusting with Assegaii
   MC74	Zulu, IsiCoco, throwing Assegaii
   MC75	Zulu, IsiCoco, with Knob-kerrie
   MC76	Zulu, IsiCoco, firing Rifle
   MC77	Zulu, IsiCoco, advancing with rifle
   MC78	Zulu, Full Dress, thrusting with Assegaii
   MC79	Zulu, Full Dress, throwing Assegaii
   MC80	Zulu, Full Dress, firing Rifle
   MC81	Zulu, Full Dress, with Knob-kerrie
   MC82	Zulu, Full Dress, advancing with Rifle
   MC83	Zulu Induna (Leader)
   MC84	British Infantryman firing
   MC85	British Infantryman advancing
   MC86	British Infantryman prone
   MC87	British Infantry Officer
   MC88	British Infantry Bugler
   MC89	British Infantry Standard Bearer
   MC90	Highlander firing
   MC91	Highlander advancing
   MC92	Highlander prone
   MC93	Highlander Officer
   MC94	Highlander Piper
   MC95	Highlander Standard Bearer
   MC96	Dragoon. H7. H8
   MC97	Lancer. H7. H8
   MC98	Mounted Officer. H7. H8
   MC99	Mounted Infantryman. H7. H8
   MC100	Mounted Infantryman on foot
   MC101	Artillery Gatling Gunner
   MC102	Artilleryman carrying Gatling Ammo
   MC103	Artilleryman kneeling
   MC104	Artilleryman standing
   MC105	Artilleryman with shell
   MC106	Artillery Officer
   MC107	Limber Rider
   MC108	Naval Brigade Gatling Gunner
   MC109	Naval Brigade Gatling Ammo Carrier
   MC110	Frontier Light Horse Trooper. H15. H16
   MC111	Frontier Light Horse Officer. H15. H16
   MC112	Natal Native Contingent with Rifle
   MC113	Natal Native Contingent with Assegaii
   MC114	Naval Brigade Rating with Rifle
   MC115	Naval Brigade Rating with Sabre
   MC116	Naval Brigade Officer

   
   
   

   VOORTREKKERS (BOERS)
   MC117	Mounted Voortrekker Commandant. H15. H16
   MC118	Mounted Voortrekker Plain Hat. H15. H16
   MC119	Mounted Voortrekker Feathered Hat. H15. H16
   MC120	Voortrekker Commandant on Foot
   MC121	Voortrekker advancing, Plain Hat
   MC122	Voortrekker standing firing, Feathered Hat
   MC123	Voortrekker Woman, Loading
   MC124	Artilleryman with Rammer
   MC125	Artilleryman with Ball
   MC126	Artilleryman with Linstock
   MC127	Artilleryman Standing
   MC128	Artillery Officer
   MC129	Wagon Driver

   
   
   

   AFGANS
   MC130	Tribesman, advancing with Jazail
   MC131	Tribesman, turban, firing Jazail
   MC132	Tribesman, skull cap, firing Jazail
   MC133	Tribesman, turban, sitting, firing Jazail
   MC134	Tribesman, skull cap, sitting, firing Jazail
   MC135	Tribesman, crouching with Jazail
   MC136	Tribesman, prone with Rifle
   MC137	Tribesman, advancing, sword and shield
   MC138	Tribesman, charging, sword and shield
   MC139	Tribesman, crouching, sword and shield
   MC140	Tribesman, dagger and shield
   MC141	Tribesman, Standard Bearer. E28
   MC142	Mounted Tribesman with Rifle. H27
   MC143	Mounted Tribesman, sword and shield. H27
   MC144	Mounted Afghan Chief. H27

   
   
   

   INDIAN ARMY
   MC145	Indian Infantryman firing
   MC146	Indian Infantryman advancing
   MC147	Indian Infantry Officer
   MC148	Sikh Infantryman firing
   MC149	Sikh Infantryman advancing
   MC150	Bengal Lancer. H7. H8
   MC151	Indian Mounted Officer. H7. H8
   MC152	Indian Mounted Bugler. H7. H8
   MC153	Indian Artilleryman kneeling
   MC154	Indian Artilleryman with rammer

   
   
   

   GURKHAS
   MC155	Gurkha Infantryman, firing
   MC156	Gurkha Infantryman, advancing
   MC157	Gurkha Infantry Officer

   
   

part 4. massacre

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To understand the British reaction after Cawnpore one must understand Cawnpore itself.
It was an Indian thing, greatsuffering of children, women, the invalid, the weak, placed on them by the bully, the psychotic and the sadist.In no way were the assailants of the whites at Cawnpore those fighting for a real and tangible cause. Beggars,Ne'er do wells, the unemployed and the mutineers. Those who were not at Cawnpore can have no idea of vengeance.
 Nana Sahib ordered it.He ordered it and the so called Indian Mutiny because he had been disgraced as an bad landlord and his pension had been taken away by the British. It is a pity that national heroes are sometimes made of men who were merely in a certain place at a certain time but Indian websites and their national government(the Panjay postage stamp) have euluogised this local uprising/mutiny into a glorious war of Independence.Ganhi should have known better. It must also be said that the majority of Indians backed



































the empire and the british .They knew what the NANA SAHIBS of their country were like. The Gurkhas did come under suspicion but this was quickly allayed.
AT CAWNPORE there were four hundred British fighting men,seventy were invalids plus several hundred women and kids. The whites with the faithful sepoys took refuge in a magazine and tried to defend the women and kids.Agony from heat,thirst,sickness,wounds,all that.
No medicines.Nama Sahib offered safe passage to Allahabad to every member of the garrison who surrended;a ragged crowd of survivors took him up on the offer.They were embarked on barges but then the barges were set alight and bullets poured into the whites from all sides.One hundred and fifty women and children who survived were dragged back to Cawnpore and imprisoned, they were pushed down the well you can see in the illustration.The men were killed,those who were still alive, in the presence of Nana Sahib. Hacked to death by the now crazy murderous folly. This was the so called War of Liberation that idiots on the internet write about.But Campbell was coming.

part three

In Meerut the next day 10 May British troops assembled for church . It was evening when hundreds of Sepoys broke into the jail; they were joined by looters and general beggar types intent on plunder.They slew anyone who was white or on the side of the British. On 11 May native cavalry arrived in Dehli and released all prisoners in the jail.They were joined by Sepoys. They killed defenceless babies, their Mothers, the old and ailing and of course any white military or civilian administrators.The English with no companies available blew up the magazine with a great act of heroism.(images above are from the battle/massacre at Dehli) They collected the children and Mothers and tried to retreat.The sufferings of the children were manifold and manifest,at times beyond belief.The survivors were few. On the 26 June 1857 Palmerston got the news.The commander in chief Anson in india was dead.Palmerston appointed the immortal, the Scot, that highlander Sir Colin Campbell to take command. He started the next day to India.On the 1st of July the first ship left England with troops to quell the mutiny. By the end of september 30,000 were on the high seas bound for India. Then Nana Sahib ordered the massacre at Cawnpore.91st regt of foot by blues

part 2 lies are better than life

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The structure of the Sepoy army was at times chaos.Because of the class/caste system an officer would kneel before a private.Going across seas was a great problem due to religous observation. The Sepoy was also alarmed at the idea that the British wanted to employ Sikhs in their place.
The Sikh infantry was regarded as the best in the world. Then came the idea that on the centenary of the battle of Plessey in 1857 European rule would be destroyed. A spark therefore was needed to explode the whole. It came at Dum Dum in Bengal near Calcutta in Jan 1857; the story of the greased cartridge. It spread like wildfire. At Berhampore and Barrackpore the 19th and 34th native infantry refused to accept cartridges. The official outbreak occured at MEERUT near Dehli .Tdum dum station
two Sepoy regiments, one native cavalry. Here they were quartered with the 60th rifles, a dragoon regiment, a troop of artillery, and a light field battery. The strongest British force at any station in Bengal.(Model soldiers are Blues Limited,William Hoeker and Britain's).
On April the 23rd Colonel Smyth ordered a parade of skirmishers; only four accepted the cartridges offered. The men were tried , ten years hard labour.But as they were led away a terrible silence invaded the fortress. Plans were brewing, vendetta was in the air.
 A month before the mutiny began at Barrackpore Mangal Pandey was executed before his sentence could be carried out and this further incensed the sepoys;Pandey had killed a British officer in Barrackpore during the argument over cartridges; the officer had been on his side as he wanted to replace the cartridges creaed with pig fat.

Many Indian websites unfairly and to be honest incorrectly point out that Meerut and people like Pandey(the colour photo above shows him in the supposed uniform of the 34th from an Indian film, the other is an old illustration) were the beginnings of a great liberation war; this is as much a falsity as those so called "facts" which sparked off the 1st civil war in America as regards "The Boston Massacre" and "Paul Revere's ride". They suit the university proffesors and would be liberationists in their reasons behind national pride.Read on in the post above this the first post is below this.the love interest in the film of pandey, not bad eh?

the unemployed soldier indian mutiny paRT 1

There are many indian revisionists who want to make the indian mutiny much more than what  it was, the kindian mutiny as it is  as it is known was a purely localised affakir blown up to huge proportions by the horrific massacre of women and children by fanatical mutineers and here we set out here to bring some sense to the conflict.It  it is February 1856= 233,000 native troops plus 40,000 European (East Indian and Crown) 3 Sepoy armies=Bengal,Bombay,Madras .
Keep in mind that the mutiny was one of the Bengal sepoy army only. It was not a national rising. It started after Lord Dalhousie annexed territory of Indian despots whose scandalous handling of law and order was manifest.
It was also not anything to do with indian solidarity or in any way a revolution.
 In OUDH in Bengal the ruler Nana Sahib was pensioned off. He was allowed to continue to take rents. This he resented and started to tamper with native soldiers, the SEPOYS. (NANA SAHIB.right)
Also a large number of soldiers had becomre redundant when Oudh was annexed.They were now penniless and became one of the causes of the Bengal mutiny.
Apart from this the victory at Gujerat had left a Sepoy army inflated with its own importance.It was idle and as you know that condition leads to many things.In the first image THE BATTLE OF GUJERAT
The Battle of Gujrat was a decisive battle in the war, fought on 21 February 1849, between the forces of the empire and an army in rebellion against the Company's control of their lands represented by the child Maharaja  who was in British custody . The Sikh army was defeated by british and bengali troops After it capitulated a few days later, then the punjab was annexed to the East India Company's territories and Duleep Singh was deposed.

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