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OUR ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY.
then came forth, once again to inhale the pure air of heaven. Their number was twenty-three – one hundred and twenty-three having perished in the agonies of that dreadful night! Of the survivors, even, several were soon after carried off by putrid diseases, the consequence of the cruelty to which they had been subjected.[1]
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The precise share of the Soubahdar in this atrocious transaction is not ascertainable. Mr. Holwell, one of the sufferers, believed that the orders were only general, and amounted to no more than that the prisoners should be
- ↑ Mill, in his contemptible pedantry and affectation of impartiality, says the English had their own practice to thank for suggesting the Black Hole of Calcutta to the officers of the Soubahdar as a fit place of confinement!
