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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College

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Date transcribed2000-00-00
Transcribed byBenda Cook
CommentPublication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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No.  939    
View all other items of "Surname" with value "Block" in "Memorials of Old Haileybury College" Surname  Block    
Christian Names  Adam Henry George    
Dates at Haileybury  1849-50    
2nd Term  Hist & Pol Econ, Sanskrit Prizes    
Presidency  Bengal    
Career in India  1851-57    
Place of Death  Killed near Sultanpur    
Date of Death  1857 [Jun 6]    
Final Appointment 1  Deputy Commissioner of Saltanpur    
Mutiny Service  Deputy Commissioner of Sultanpore in Oudh, the headquarters of the 15th Irregular Cavalry, commanded by Sam Fisher, one of the finest Officers in the Service. On June 5 Block was warned of the approach of mutinous Sepoys from Jaunpore, who had declared their resolve to kill every European. Fisher and Block at once sent off the ladies and children under an escort to Allahabad, but refused to leave themselves. The next day they were both basely murdered by some policemen, the troopers standing by.    
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