Nana Sahib
Britishnoun
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She carried a letter from Nana Sahib, offering safe conduct to Allahabad for all the garrison “except those who were connected with the acts of Lord Dalhousie.”
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis
He had lived in Cawnpore before the Mutiny, and knew Nana Sahib well, 217 indeed had been his physician, and gave me much information about the bloody Mahratta chief.
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
Footnote 56: Bala Rao was a brother of Nana Sahib, chief instigator of the Sepoy Mutiny.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Benson, Arthur Christopher
There was a bare possibility that the Maynes might have reached Agra, or that Nana Sahib had protected them for his own sake.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis
Nana Sahib escorted Mayne from Meerut to Cawnpore because the safeguarding of the Judicial Commissioner of Oudh was a strong card to play in that parlous game of empire.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis
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