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2 arms to the columns under Brigadiers Hervy and Capon, which had been in
3 orders for the assault of the citadel. ~
4 Thus the second siege of Multdn was brought to a close, and the
5 supremacy of British power completely vindicated. The loss of the British
6 was 210 killed and 982 wounded.
7 The bodies of Mr. Vans-Agnew and Lieutenant Anderson were removed
8 from their neglected grave, where they lay side by side, and, wrapped in
9 Kashmir shawls, were carried by the soldiers of the Ist Bombay Fusiliers to
10 their appointed resting-place on the summit of the citadel, where they were
11 interred with military honours. The bodies of the faithful Kahn Singh and
12 his son were found locked in each other’s arms under the ruins of their prison.
13 Mal Raj was subsequently brought to Lahore, and tried by a military
14 court, composed of two officers and a civilian, who found him guilty, but re-
15 commended him to mercy, as the “ victim of circumstances.” Lord Dalhousie
16 accepted the recommendation, and Mul Réj was banished beyond the seas,
17 but the sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life, and not long after
18 he died. Thus ended the life of Dewdn Mul Raj, the treacherous host, who
19 murdered his two innocent English guests in the Idgéh; the despised and
20 dastardly foe, who broke his faith with his own Government.
21 Lord Dalhousie bestowed a yearly pension of a lakh of rupees on Nawab
22 Bahdwal Khan, for assisting the British with his whole military resources,
23 and a lakh for every month his army kept the field.
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25 THE SECOND SIKH WAR (concluded).
26 LAST STRUGGLE OF THE SIKHS FOR INDEPENDENCE.
27 HE Multan rebellion was suppressed, but it served only as the prelude to a
28 T great national outbreak, and the whole of the Panjab was seething with
29 disaffection. The great body of the Khélsé army and the Sikh population
30 had for their avowed object the total expulsion of the British from the
31 Panjdb, and the restoration of Khdlsé supremacy. The general belief of
32 the sardars was that, as the British had abandoned Kébul, so they would
33 give up the Panjdb. The theatre of the war which was about to begin, lay
34 between the Chindb andthe Indus. Shér Singh having joined the standard
35 of his rebel father, Chattar Singh, fixed his head-quarters at Ramnagar,
36 on the left bank of the Chinab, about half way between the source of the
37 stream and its junction with the Indus, He now decided upon a separate
38 line of action, and, with that view, occupied with a brigade an island
39 situated in the middle of the river, at a bend opposite Ramnagar, and
40 strengthened it by batteries commanding the ford. He issued the most
41 inflammatory proclamations, calling on the Ihdlsdé troops to assemble, and
42 fight the foreigners for the independence of their country. A compact was
43 formed between Chattar Singh and Dost Muhammad, whereby it was
44 agreed that Peshawar, the wild aim of the Dost’s life, should be delivered
45 to him, if he aided the Sikhs against the British. Major, afterwards Sir,
46 George Lawrence, after being taken to Kohat by the rebels, as previously
47 stated, was brought back to Peshdwar by Chattar Singh, and there confined:
48 The whole of the Darbar troops at Peshawar, 8,000 strong, being treacher-
49 The bodies of Agnew
50 and Anderson are found
51 and decently interred,
52 The trial of Mul Raj.
53 He is found guilty
54 and sentenced to
55 iniprisonment for life.
56 His subsequent
57 death.
58 The reward of the
59 Nawab of Bahawalpur,
60 The Sikhs aim at
61 expelling the British
62 from the Panjab,
63 Compact between
64 Chattar Singh and
65 Dost Muhammad.
66 Major Lawrence put
67 in confinement,
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