Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-05-21
BRAVE KAVANAGH.

empressement for military life Thomas
Henry Kavanagh proved himself the beau
ideal of a hero, and in book published
by him in 1860 entitled How Won the
Victoria Cross, =" he describes the yearn-
lngs of his heart for distinction, and the
feelings of exultation with which, when
he rose from sick bed in which he had
been Frustrated by brief illness, he heard
that the siege was not yet raised nor the
mutiny over.
The march of Havelock and his brave
column to relieve the devoted band cooped
up in the residency was watched in Great
Britain step by step with intense eager
ness; but, through the losses sustained
on the way thither by battle and disease,
it became impossible to compel the mu-
timers to raise the siege, and even after
the entrance of the relief column it was
conducted as vigorously as ever.
During FIVE long months the little gar
rison was put to its wits end to meet the
constant and everrecurring attacks of the
enemy. Repelling sortes, mining and
countermining, repairing breaches, etc,
was the work that was always going on;
and none was more willing and brave than
the gallant Kavanagh, who, though
wounded several times, was ever to be
found at the post of danger. We should
| o1ec ,,,.,,t;,,, horo ~, a., i,+oros+irc, foot
tha+ Iynvo,,orrl,,s =, ifo ,-oe ols, ,,ouplod
d,,rir[, tho sioc,o .nd laid nm for eeveraI
weeks At length, in November, came the
welcome news that Sir Colin Campbell
afterward Lord Clyde-was advancing
with a strong British force to the relief of
| the garrison, and on the 9th of that month
Kavanagh learned that spy had come in
from Cawnpur, and that he was going
natcbes for SIR cain Indeed II Ind he-
no,oo ,,ooossorv +Lot Cir Colin,e r,orob
sbould he FASTENED and that he sbould Inc
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route Rut who vas to be the guido9 sir
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srbioc+ dated ,Lout n voar aftor tho
event 'Tbe almost imnossibilitv of INV
Euro,,oan hoirg abla to escano througb tho
citI, nndn+oc+od and tho certain+v Of HE
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doring anv ofricer or even eeol.ing volnn-
teers for s,,cb n drt1 ;,
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