| John Tulloch Nash

“ Although our harassing marches now closed, the circumstance was a disappointment to the Corps, and considered by no means satisfactory; for having at last reached, to use a hackneyed phrase, within measurable distance of Luknow (where preparations for the re-capture of that important city were in progress) , we all felt impatient for removal to those more stirring quarters. Subsequent events, however, following as they did one after another in quick succession, amply justified the peremptory orders that detained us at Amorah. ”

“ What the living men had suffered while being hunted down can never be known — except this: that exhausted, foot-sore, wounded, and bleeding, they were slain by the savage foe with demoniac barbarity, as we ascertained on the spot. ”

“ Hardly an incident showing an insurrectionary temper in the people, occurred while our route lay through Bengal Proper; but no sooner had we crossed the quiet Gunduk, and invaded the Gorukpūr district, where martial law had been proclaimed, than the hostile disposition of the inhabitants began to make itself manifest without the slightest disguise.
The sudden mortality among our horses and beasts of burden inspired us with misgivings that they were falling a sacrifice to poison ”