१८५७ का स्वातन्त्र्य समर (वीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर - अंग्रेजों द्वारा छपने से पूर्व प्रतिबन्धित महाग्रन्थ)

HAVELOCK
country to the new officers and men, to fight along with
them and to wreak a terrible vengeance. And these brave
Englishmen, whom one word of a Sepoy would have
despatched from this earth, who would have been
dead by now but for their mercy, now came to-
gether and started the campaign of burning villages
wholesale.
When the news came to Cawnpore that a detachment
under Major Renaud was marching towards Fattehgurh,
Nana Sahib sent some troops in that quarter. Hoping to
crush the small detachment in a short time, this army
under Jwala Prasad and Tikka Singh reached Fattehgurh.
But, by that time, Havelock's army had joined Major
Renaud and the united English army fired their guns as
soon as they heard that the Revolutionaries had come.
When the small Revolutionary force rushed into the field,
confident of crushing Major Renaud in no time, it found
arrayed against it the whole army of Havelock, together
with artillery and all necessaries. This was on the 12th
of July. They were, thus, completely taken by surprise.
The fight began and they had to retire from the field
leaving their guns behind them. Pursuit was impossible
and the English army gave up the idea and entered the
town of Fattehpur. At the time of the rising in Fatteh-
pur, the leadership of the Revolution had been taken up
by a deputy magistrate in the English employ, a Maho-
medan named Hikmat Ullah. English officers had also
been killed there. The sword of English revenge now
fell on that town. The former magistrate of the town,
Sherer, who had been spared his life by the Revolutiona-
ries and let off, now came with the army and was now
eager to exercise his power of magistracy, so long in
abeyance. So, a looting by the military was ordered, first
of all. When it was certain that nothing more remained
in the town worth looting, the order was given to set fire
to it; but the honour of this work was left to the Sikhs.
So, when the English troops left, the Sikh troops per-
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