“He forthwith devoted his talents and wealth to the service of this cause. He aided it in person; he fought in the front ranks; he risked his life equally with the humblest of the wretched and misguided fanatics; he was ten times wounded in twenty engagements, seeking death but finding it not, when at length the sanguinary rebels were utterly defeated, and the atrocious mutiny was brought to an end.”
The Sepoy Rebellion of 1857.
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“Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. the sepoys were vanquished, and the land of the rajahs of old fell again under the rule of England.”
– Excerpt from The Mysterious Island
"The executions occurred summarily and without appeal." An eyewitness quote from the English newspaper "Picture Post" (1857). Published in 1939.
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