Show the file fate of the women who fearing no danger had bad accompanied their bus husbands brothers or fathers to india was wag too horrible to 10 relate they were kept kepi prisoners subject to fearful indignities at the hands of their captors cap lore until they either ended their own lives or their bated ravishers ravi murdered mur derei derel them at Firoz pur at Itan wah wali at mathura at and at a hundred other places where englishmen lived or Brit britie ih troops stationed these scenes of horror and of outrage were reported these rio linga tinza and rebellions were kept up for weeks before the british rulers realized rea lied the extent of the mutiny with which they had to contend at Alla habad babad the of fisers of the sixth native infantry ignorant of the trouble around them were quietly seated at dinner in their hall when their troops revolted and firing through the windows killed nearly all those wb who escaped with many tradesmen and more than a hund red zed women and children fled to the little fortress iu in the city where they prepared prep sired to defend themselves to the end it was a brief struggle in fighting men the garrison numbered only a handful of officers and the 05 65 invalid soldiers who had bad been on duty in the fort against the artillery of the rebels they were helpless and when hen they saw further fighting useless they turned their weapons against themselves knowing that death vas a mercy combated coin com pared to what they would woula haie bae to andare if captured but it was not until the massacre at that the british government began to see gee that ilo ho gentle measures should be used a up that time tile the viceroy lad had been ti heating eating in ill friendly terms with nara bahia one of the leaders of ol 01 the rebellion after Cawn pore lie h wasi was hunted most mercilessly and one great grief of the british sol dier was that lie was never captured it was in the end of may 1857 1837 that the native troops there muti nied sir hugh wheeler who was in command at once fortified a part of the town provisioned it as best he could and summoned within the embankments all the nou non combats combatants 1 ints in the city of the british there were soldiers soldier 10 civil and military officers engineers traders and clerks 40 men dybo were there on oil business and women and children durino during this time the women showed great geat heroism bridget and mrs mra moore spec specially distinguished themselves and when the force of nien men grew so small mail that all the cannon cold not be manned they took places at the guns and worked as courage courageously outly as the tha men to add to the horrors or of the situation nana sahib daily br brought into an open space before tile the fort where all could see their fate a band of E english anglish captives men women and children were brought there daily to die and as they saw the helpless victims cut to pieces piece the defenders of the fort could picture their own fate should they bo be made captives in thia chii way they saw more than 1200 benl enl english is ah men and women put to death for six weeks the little band held out then both food and ammunition run short while wondering how long it would be before they would die a message was wag received from nana saiz sahib in this he be offered anem all an ail unobstructed ted journey to Alla habad provided they would surrender the fort sir hugh huah wheeler doubted the rebel lead leader er s word and opposed its acceptance but as tho resa ies desired to tal take e advantage of the offer I 1 he gave way the terms were agreed urmo upon and nana said that he would have forty big erows scows moored in the gantes ganges cloie cloe by and that in these they they could easily reach A Alla lla habad habal where the english were in force the next lay day trusting to nana sahide word they ahey set out they found the boats a waiting awaiting them by order of tantia topi nanas lieutenant the women and children were put in boats by themselves As they put out from the shore they chev saw nana sitting in a tower of the temple of sati claura watch ing them A moment after a bugle 0 sounded from the temple and a fierce cannonade opened upon the boats in which were the men all but butone one sunk and those iu in them drowned As the fire of the cannon ceased scores of boats mantled manned by natives put out into the stream and in a few minutes all the english women were being distributed among nanas followers foll fol loers onera |