MUTINY MEMOIRS
BEING
_PERSONAL REMINISCENCES_
OF THE
GREAT SEPOY REVOLT OF 1857
BY
COLONEL A. R. D. MACKENZIE, _C.B._,
HONY. A.-D.-C. TO THE VICEROY
_Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit_
Allahabad
AT THE PIONEER PRESS: 1891
TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST HONORABLE
The Marquess of Lansdowne,
_G.M.S.I._, _G.C.M.G._, _G.M.I.E._,
VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.
THIS SHORT RECORD OF PERSONAL ADVENTURE
DURING THE GREAT INDIAN MUTINY OF
1857 IS, BY PERMISSION, AND
WITH PROFOUND RESPECT,
DEDICATED BY
The Author.
_PREFACE._
_The reminiscences contained in the following pages were originally
published in the columns of the_ PIONEER; _and it is with the kind
permission of the Editor of that Journal that I am enabled to re-issue
them in the form of this little book_.
_They do not pretend to any merit but that of truth. In that respect
they may claim to present a record of actual events, and thus to bring
before the Reader, however imperfectly, a rough sketch of the great
Indian Mutiny such as it appeared to the eyes of a young Subaltern
Officer of Native Cavalry, who had the good fortune to be engaged in
its suppression._
_CONTENTS._
PAGE.
I.--THE OUTBREAK 1--30
II.--SKIRMISHING 31--61
III.--BEFORE DELHI 62--86
IV.--STORMING THE CITY 87--108
V.--CAPTURE OF JHUJJUR 109--133
VI.--EN ROUTE FOR LUCKNOW 134--163
VII.--DILKHOOSHA 164--187
VIII.--LUCKNOW 188--204
IX.--A HERO'S DEATH 205--211