A History of Our Own Times, Vol. 3 of 4: From the Accession of Queen V to the General Election (Classic Reprint) - Livres de poche

Excerpt from A History of Our Own Times, Vol. 3 of 4: From the Accession of Queen V to the General Election

The capture of Delhi was effected on September 20th. The siege had been long and difficult and for some time it did not seem to the general in command, Archdale Wilson, that the small force he had could, with any hope of success, attempt to carry the city by assault. Colonel Baird Smith, who was chief of the engineer department, urged the attempt strongly on him; and at length it was made, and made with success, though not without many moments when failure seemed inevitable. Brigadier General Nicholson led the storming columns, and paid for his bravery and success the price of a gallant life. He was shot through the body, and died three days after the English standard had been planted on the roof of the palace of the Moguls. Nicholson was one of the bravest and most capable officers whom the war produced. It is worthy of record,pas an evidence of the temper aroused even in men from whom better things might have been expected, that Nicholson strongly urged the passage of a law to authorize flaying alive, impalement, or burn ing of the murderers of the women and children in Delhi. He contended that the idea of simply hanging the per.

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