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REPORTS
New York Daily Times
July 6, 1857
Mutiny in the Native
East Indian Army
Article begins:
The Bombay and Calcutta papers, received by late mails, contain accounts
of a mutiny which, breaking out in the 19th regiment of native infantry
in Bengal, was spreading like an epidemic through the native cantonments
of the British Army in Northern India. The mutiny began in February at
Barrackpore-a large military village and a seat of the Governor General,
rear Calcutta.
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New York
Daily Times
Aug 3, 1857
Danger to the English
Power in India
Article begins:
Lieutenant-General Sir CHARLES NAPIER. the most efficient soldier ever
in the East Indian service. has left on record the opinion that "Mutiny
is the greatest danger threatening India--a danger that may come unexpectedly
and with a power to shake the very foundation cf our Eastern Empire."
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The New York Times
Nov. 25, 1857
The State of The
Mutiny
Article begins:
The fuller details of the latest news from India brought by the Vanderbilt,
confirm the substantial value of the successes won by the British before
Delhi and Lucknow, and reinforce the conviction we have already expressed,
that the menacing importance of the Sepoy revolt has been thoroughly dissipated.
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MAGAZINE
REPORTS
The Atlantic Monthly
December 1857
The Indian
Revot
By Charles Creighton Hazewell
Article begins:
For the first time in the history of the English dominion in India, its
power has been shaken from within its own possessions, and by its own
subjects. Whatever attacks have been made upon it heretofore have been
from without, and its career of conquest has been the result to which
they have led. But now no external enemy threatens it, and the English
in India have found themselves suddenly and unexpectedly engaged in a
hand-to-hand struggle with a portion of their subjects, not so much for
dominion as for life. There had been signs and warnings, indeed, of the
coming storm; but the feeling of security in possession and the confidence
of moral strength were so strong, that the signs had been neglected and
the warnings disregarded.
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