A Turning Point in the Indian Mutiny

This book aims at throwing a light on a very crucial time in our Empire's history. It aims at lighting up that part of England's memory which is concerned with a certain siege which happened more than fifty years ago, lest she forget splendid deeds done by heroic Englishmen in the Indian Mutiny; men who, at out-of-the-way stations, fought against gigantic odds, with only a few troops to support them— fought, and saved their country's colours. These were the men who held up the lamp of the Ideal