Since the mutiny, a memorandum upon the events
connected with the Cawnpore mutiny and massacre has been prepared by
Lieutenant-colonel Williams, military secretary to government in the
north-western provinces:--"Forty-two depositions from persons of all
classes and creeds--Christians, Mahomedans, and Hindoos--have
been recorded, and valuable evidence obtained from respectable and
influential residents in the city. These depositions, together with the
native journal of a city resident, have been translated, and relate the
first attempts made by the Nana to tamper with the troops, his ready
success, the earliest meeting held by the conspirators, and their
proceedings on and subsequent to their mutiny, from the 1st of June to
the advance of the British force in July. The evidence shows the Nana's
brother, Bala Sahib, to have taken as (if not more) active and prominent
a part as even the Nana himself. There are no traces of any conspiracy
prior to the arrival of the Nana at Cawnpore, on the 22nd of May, 1857,
with the two guns, and 300 horse and foot, for the avowed purpose of
aiding in the maintenance of order. But about that time it would seem
that two sowars, the one named Rahem Khan, of Bishenpore, near Bithoor,
the other Muddut Alee, of Bancla, and in the service of the Nana, were
employed by Bala Sahib to corrupt the fidelity of the troops. The 2nd
Cavalry, already ripe for mutiny, needed but little persuasion." Among
those who perished were the heroic General Wheeler and his heroine
daughter.
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