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Container Reference (shelfmark) Mss Eur F231/10

11. Mss Eur F231/10, f95

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/10, f95
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
In case report in Bengal Hurkaru and similar statements in private letters home should alarm Vernon Smith, Canning castigates 'old women some of them with swords by their sides' who are spreading alarm and despondency at Calcutta and make Canning 'ashamed for Englishmen'; no cause for fearing tro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1857
Extent:
1 item

12. Mss Eur F231/10, f98

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/10, f98
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Death of Anson (C-in-C) from cholera; he had apparently been waiting for siege guns before proceeding to Delhi; though any defeat or check under the walls of Delhi 'in the present temper of India would be disastrous', Canning considers siege guns unnecessary; Sir H Barnard to take command at Delh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jun 1857
Extent:
1 item

13. Mss Eur F231/10, f114

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/10, f114
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Re-organisation of Native Army following suppression of mutiny will require someone with experience of sepoys, and Canning therefore proposes that Grant's acting appointment as C-in-C be made permanent, or at least that he should remain in acting appointment for some time.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jun 1857
Extent:
1 item

14. Mss Eur F231/10, f116

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/10, f116
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Situation at Delhi; protracted delay in taking it 'lamentable in its effects'; Anson should not have waited for siege train; problems of carriage and commissariat have also caused delay; failure of army staff, especially medical staff, to appreciate need for speed; wishes Sir John Lawrence was ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jun 1857
Extent:
1 item

15. Mss Eur F231/10, f133

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/10, f133
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Explains detention of King of Oudh and four of his suite in Fort William following deposition of sepoy who was twice tampered with by Muslim describing himself as coming from King's people; King's complicity unproven, but Canning thinks it essential to make it impossible for anyone to claim to sp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jun 1857
Extent:
1 item

16. Mss Eur F231/10, f135

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/10, f135
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Another regiment of dragoons needed, because Irregular Cavalry have proved as faithless as sepoys; though regiment of East Indian Dragoons could be raised its value would be 'very problematical'; is pleased with Grant (acting C-in-C) who arrived three days ago and Canning with him; believes war w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1857
Extent:
1 item

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