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soners condemned to death after a hasty trial were mocked at and tortured by ignorant pivates before approved"- Holme's History of the Sepoy War Page 124.
सं. २५ र्प. १४०
"Had the punjab gone, we must have been ruined. Long before reinforcements could have reached the upper provinces the ones of all England could never have recovered the calamity and retrieved her power in thee East."-Life of Lord Lawrence Vol.II, Page 335.
सं.२६ र्प. १४२
Sir John Lawrence writes in one of his letters :-
"Had the Sikhs joined against us nothing humanly speaking, could have saved us. No man could have withstood the temptation to average their loss of National Independence." -October 21st, 1857.
सं.२७ र्प. १८०
"At every successive stage of the Military revolt, the fact of a deep seated and widespread feeling of hatred and an unappeasable revengefulness for an assumed wrong is more plainly developed. The desire for plunder was only a secondary influence in producing the calamities to which the European residents of various places were exposed."- Charles Ball's Indian Mutiny,Vol 1 page 245.
सं.२८ र्प. १८०
"No sooner had been known in the districts that there had been an insurrection at Benares, than the whole country rose like one mass. Communications were cut off with the neighbouring stations and it appeared as if the Ryots and the Zam were about
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soners condemned to death after a hasty trial wore mocked at and tortured by ignorant privates before their execution, while educated officers looked on and approved "-Holme's History of the Sepoy War Page 124. p. 349.880 "Had the Punjab gone, we must have been ruined. Long before reinforcements could have reached the upper provinces the bones of all Englishmen would have been bleaching in the Sun. England could never have recovered the calamity and retrieved her power in the East. "Life of Lord Lawrence Vol. II, Page 335. सं. २६ पृ. १४२ Sir John Lawrence writes in one of his letters - “Had the Sikhs joined against us, nothing humanly speaking, could have saved us. No man could have hoped, much less foreseen, that these people would have withstood the temptation to avenge their loss of National Independence." Ostober 21st, 1857, F. Pleq, f60 "At every successive stage of the Military, revolt, the fact of a deep seated and widespread feeling of hatred and an unappeasable revengefulness for an assumed wrong is more plaintly developed. The desire for plunder was only & secondary influence in produce ing the calamities to which the European residents of various places were exposed."-Charles Ball's Indian Mutiny, Vol. 1 page 245. H.269.860 - "No sooner had been known in the districts that there had been an insurrection at Benares, than the whole country rose like one mass. Communications were cut off with the neighbouring stations and it appeared as if the Ryots and the Zem indars were about
