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left: shops opened ; bazaars crowded. More Hindus who salam than 
Musalm&ns, who generally do not. 
May 30th. —Got an order to go with Coke into the district. Counter¬ 
manded. 
May 31st. —Went in the morning to see how the unfinished School- 
house is. It is to be our barrack. At mid-day ordered to start with 
a column under Brigadier W. M. Taylor, c.b., 79th Highlanders, going 
to Shahabad. Tombs' Troop, a squadron Carabiniers under Major 
Bickerstaff, Cureton’s Multanies, wings of 60fch and 82nd, and 22nd 
Punjab Infantry. Captain Macguire commands the wing of the 60th. 
Take no tents with us. 
June 1st. —Made a double march last night, resting for a time at 
Badshahnagar; road execrable; got to Shahabad about day-break. 
Enemy fired a few rounds with precision as we came up, but fled, as 
usual, on the advance of the Horse Artillery and cavalry. Two guns 
captured, but horses had been taken out. 
June 2nd. —Got back to Shahjahanpur at 7 a.m. 
June 4th. —Shahjahanpur Field Force broken up from to-day. 
Saturday , June 12th. —Alarms of war again. Hume sent down to 
Barnes' house with an 18-pr. and two mortars. Dined with Cureton at 
his mess. 1 City illuminated. 
June 17th. —A report came in last night that the Mulvi 2 had been 
killed in a fight with the Raja of Powain. A squadron of Multanies 
went out to aid if necessary. Dined with Cureton and learned that the 
Mulvi had gone to Powain and demanded that a Thanadar and Tahsildar 
should be sent to Mohamdi to provide supplies. He was told that the 
Powain man had joined us. An altercation ensued, and some one shot 
him from the wall. The heads of the Mulvi and his Resaldar were cut 
off and sent in here. The bodies were brought in after I had returned 
to my tent. 
June 19th.- —All the bungalows in cantonments have long ago been 
appropriated and made habitable. We, having to look out for ourselves, 
fixed on a building at the upper end of the town, close to the Magis¬ 
trate's office and our barrack. It was the tomb of the founders of the 
city. 
Sunday, June 20th. —Brigadier-General Sir Thomas Seaton arrived 
and took over command. General Jones has gone. 
Between this and October alarms of rebels occasionally took place, 
but only on one occasion did the guns move out of park, then only to 
return. Shahjahanpur is well wooded with magnificent trees. There 
was abundance of well-seasoned timber to be had, so, as there was 
another campaign ahead, though I might not be in it, and plenty of 
1 These alarms generally came from the chief Civil Officer, and I always went to Cureton, 
whose information was never out, to know how far my preparations should go, as we had to he al¬ 
ways prepared on very short notice, extra orders were rarely necessary. 
2 Ahmad Ali SMh, a native of Arcot, had come to Faizabad, in February 1857, preaching a 
religious war against us. He was captured and imprisoned, but released on the outbreak of the 
Mutiny in June, and became a leader of the rebels and the trusted adviser of the Begam of Oudh. 
