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Image title: vans Agnew, Patrick A and Anderson, William. Memorial at St Pauls Cathedral, Calcutta
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Not near this stone, nor in any consecrated ground, but on the extreme frontier of the British Indian Empire, lie the remains of Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew, of the Bengal Civil Service, and William Anderson, Lieut. 1st Bombay Fusilier Regt. Assistants to the resident at Lahore who, being deputed by the government to relieve at his own request, Dewan Moolaj Viceroy of Moultan, of the fortress and authority which he held, were attacked and wounded by the garrison, on the 19th April 1848, and being treacherously deserted by the Sikh escort, were on the following day in flagrant breach of national faith and hospitality, barbarously murdered in the edgah under the walls of Moultan. Thus fell these two young public servants, at the age of 25 and 28 years, full of high hopes, rare talents, and promise of future usefulness. Even in their deaths doing their country honor, wounded and forsaken they could offer no resistance, but hand in hand calmly awaited the onset of their assailants. Nobly they refused to yield, foretelling the day when thousands of Englishmen should come to avenge their death and destroy Moolraj, his army and fortress: history records how the prediction was fulfilled. They were buried with military honors on the summit of the captured citadel on the 26th January 1849. The annexation of the Punjab to the British Empire was the result of the war of which their assassination was the commencement.
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