Incidents in the Sepoy War, 1857-58
Subtitle: Compiled from the Private Journals of General Sir Hope Grant
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: May 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9781402189821
Subjects: James,Hope,Grant,incidents,sepoy war,private journals,general,Hope Grant,Knollys; Biography & Autobiography / Military; History / Far East
First sentence: WERE I to attempt to trace the causes which led to the great Indian Mutiny of 1857, I should be overstepping the prescribed limits of this volume; but as the revolt was characterised by a ferocity for which even the ordinary depravity of human nature cannot account, and attended by circumstances which to the majority of English readers appear equally wayward and inexplicable, it will be well to state briefly both the symptoms and the origin of the native hostility against their European rulers, which, increasing in strength as years passed by, at last acquired a virulence which could only be relieved by an open outbreak.