Nana Sahib
Britishnoun
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Rebellion spreads rapidly under Nana Sahib and other hostile chiefs.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
The last of the peshwas, Baji Rao, was banished to Bithur, and his adopted son, the Nana Sahib, made the town his head-quarters.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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
And when the rising came, the men of those parts made Nana Sahib their leader, and he caused entrenchments to be thrown up before Cawnpore, and mounted great guns to destroy the Feringhis.
From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert
What became of Nana Sahib after the Mutiny, is a mystery that probably will never be solved.
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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