FOOTNOTES
- These sketches represent a General Parade of the Peshawar Troops on the 10th June, 1857, then consisting of about 8000 Europeans and 8000 natives, under the command of General Sydney Cotton, to witness the execution of twelve sepoys of various native infantry regiments who had been guilty of mutiny and desertion, and sentenced by a General Court Martial to be hanged; and of forty sepoys of the 55th Native Infantry, sentenced to be blown away from guns for mutinous conduct, in having possessed themselves of the Fort of Murdan, made prisoners of their officers, plundered the treasury, resisted the force sent against them, and been taken prisoners with arms in their possession (The Illustrated London News 5). ↩︎
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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