despatch, record
Accession Number

NAM.1956-07-75-158

Description

Printed despatch slip from the Chief Commissioner's and Territorial Commissioner's Offices Lahore, 24 Aug 1857. From correspondence and other papers of Colonel David Wilkie, 4th Bengal Native Infantry, mostly relating to the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). Major Beecher Commanding in Huzara reports the trial and execution of 41 more men of the late 55th N. I. at the Fort of Maunserah on the 6th instant. They had been captured and brought in from beyond our border through the exertions of the men of Kohistan and the Syuds of Khagan.

Campaigns

Indian Mutiny (1857-1859)

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