Excerpt from Life of Lord Lawrence, Vol. 2 of 2 May - june 1857. Pages Practical Justification of Sir John Lawrence's Policy - Maxims in dealing with Mutiny - Move Irregulars In from Frontier - Isolate the Regu lars - Raise fresh Troops - Utilise national Feelings of Sikhs - Keep the Administration going - Don't go too fast - Report everything Coke - vvilde - Advantages of Position at Rawul Pindi - Less worry, more W'ork - Bird's-eye view - Near to frontier - Tele graphic communication I like issuing orders by telegraph ...
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Excerpt from Life of Lord Lawrence, Vol. 2 of 2 May - june 1857. Pages Practical Justification of Sir John Lawrence's Policy - Maxims in dealing with Mutiny - Move Irregulars In from Frontier - Isolate the Regu lars - Raise fresh Troops - Utilise national Feelings of Sikhs - Keep the Administration going - Don't go too fast - Report everything Coke - vvilde - Advantages of Position at Rawul Pindi - Less worry, more W'ork - Bird's-eye view - Near to frontier - Tele graphic communication I like issuing orders by telegraph Knowledge of his Subordinates Give the horses their heads Enormous Correspondence - Lady Lawrence at Murri - Reminis cence by Lady Lawrence - By Edward Thornton A flagrant escapade - What it shows Hang the cul-d'e-sac - Caution of Sir John Lawrence - Letters to Montgomery - Prudence - Letters to Lord Elphinstone and Major Hamilton - Advocates strong Measures at first - Opinion of Hodson - Letters to Lord Canning, Hervey Greathed, and Colvin - Utilises his Knowledge of Delhi - Bartle Frere and his pre-eminent Services in the Mutiny The extremities must take care of themselves' - Frere and Lawrence compared Mutinous letters intercepted - Outbreak in Peshawur District - Im portance of Peshawar - 'a nest of devils' - A Masterostroke - Its In uence on Borderers - Exploits of Nicholson Terrible cour age' - Disafi'ection of Irregular Cavalry - Fate of the Fiftyofifth and John Becher - Lawrence obliged to recall to Peshawur Regiments which he had sent off for Delhi - General Reed goes to Delhi - Was General Johnstone to come to Peshawur - Lawrence proposes to give Sepoys their Discharge as a Safety-valve - His Love of Jus tice - His Mercy Clemency Canning' - Correspondence with Ed wardes and Cotton Punish to deter, not for revenge'-punish ment Parade at Peshawur - Eighty men's lives saved by Lawrence Outbreak at Jullundur - Lawrence's Advice - Incapacity Of John stone - Four Native Regiments go off for Delhi - Indignation of Lawrence Some of our Commanders are worse enemies than the Mutineers themselves - George Ricketts at Loodiana, and his Ex ploits - General Gowan - Disarmament at Mooltan by Crawford Chamberlain - Selected by John Lawrence for the purposewnapo leonic policy Push on - Save the well-disposed - Separate Pun jabis from Hindustanis, and save them - Proclamation to Sepoys. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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