Complex sentence: Pressured by Native Minister John Bryce, the government finally acted in late October 1881 while the sympathetic Governor was out of the country and stormed the village with almost 1600 troops at dawn on 5 November 1881.
Split into simpler sentences: Pressured by Native Minister John Bryce, the government finally acted in late October 1881 while the sympathetic Governor was out of the country. They walked into the village with 1600 troops at dawn on 5 November 1881.