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of the shores of that land, where I first drew nn' bicatli, I shall feel that 

 I am a thousand times requited for all I have endured during the event- 

 ful years of the last terrible struggle." 



At a later time another sword was voted to another gallant Nova 

 Scotian, the grandson of the fii-st colonial bishop of the Church of Eng- 

 land, and the son of the thinl bishop of Nova Scotia, Lieutenant-Colonel, 

 or, — to give him his later titles — Major-General Sir John Eardly Wilmot 

 Inglis, K.C.B., who took a conspicuous part in the dreadful conflict of 

 the Indian mutiny. With rare intrepidity for nearly ninety days he 

 successfully i-esisted with a small force — a resistance not paralleled in the 

 annals of modern M-arfare — the murderous attacks that were persistently 

 made upon Luckuow by more than fifty thousand mutineers, and won 

 imperishable fame like Uavelock and Lawrence. 



Two years later than the payment of this tribute to the hero of 

 Lucknow," the citizens of Halifax assembled by thousands in front of and 

 about the old burj-ing ground on Pleasant street, opposite Government 

 House, to witne!^s the unveiling of a monument which had been erected, 

 in honour of two other brave Nova Scotians, who had fallen in the 

 Crimean war. One of these soldiers was Captain Parker, a grandson of 

 that Benjamin Gi-een, whom I have mentioned in the firet part of this 

 monograph as a member of Governor Cornwallis's council. He was one of 

 several distinguished men who have been educated in Horton Academy 

 or in Acadia College as it became at a later time, and after a meritorious 

 career of sixteen years in the British army, met a soldier's death in the 

 final attack on the Eedan. His comrade in death and fame. Major 

 "Welsford — the grandson of a Loyalist of 1783 ' — was a graduate of old 

 King's, where his name is kept green in the memory of its students by 

 an annual prize founded by that staunch old loyalist, Senator Almon of 

 llalilax. He too found a ])lace among the gallant dead who fell as they 

 were scaling the parapets of the Redan. 



" Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife I 



To all the .sensual world proclaim, 

 One crowded hour of glorious life 



Ih worth an age without a name." 



Williams of Kars may ap|>ropriately find a niche among the builders 

 of Nova Scotia since he was closely identified with the closing yeare of the 

 province as a distinct government, but while Inglis, Parker and Welsford 

 were not directly connected with })hases of the internal development of 

 the province where they were born and educated, the qualities they dis- 

 ])laye(l, of heroic endurance and indomitable courage, were qualities 

 which have helped to place the province in its present eminent position 



' Of Philip Marchington, a Loyalist from New York. See Akins's History of 

 Halifax, p. 97. 



