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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Benda Cook | | Comment | Publication 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. | 763 |  | Surname | Sapte | | | Christian Names | Brand | | | Decorations | CB | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1841-42 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1843-71 | | | Annuitant | 1871 | | | Date of Death | 1891 Jun 6 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Judge of Farrukhabad | | | Mutiny Service | Magistrate of Bulundshahr, which was garrisoned by half a Company of the 9th Native Infantry. They mutinied on May 21, plundered the Treasury and marched off to Dehli. The town was plundered and the Station burnt by the Goojars. The Officers went to Meerut, but returned in four or five days. They were again driven out by the rebels under Wali Dad of Malagarh, who held the district till the fall of Dehli. Sapte served with the Khakee Resalla raised by Dunlop in the Meerut district; accompanied Colonel Greathed's Force from Dehli; was present at the action of Bulundshahr on Sept. 29, in which Wali Dad and a large force of mutineers were defeated, losing their guns and ammunition, and were driven across the Ganges into Rohilcund. Wali Dad, for whose capture a lac of rupees was offered, was never heard of again. Sapte with Colonel Farquhar's Force patrolled the right bank of the Ganges to prevent any rebels crossing, and on December 13 was present at the action of Gangeera under Colonel Seatoii. Was transferred to Meerut in April 1858.
[Brand Sapte was responsible for compiling these records of the Active Service of Old Haileyburians during the Mutiny.] |
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