CHAPTER XII.

THE REIGN OF VICTORIA (_continued_).

Condition of India--The Bengal Army--The Greased Cartridges--The Prudence of Hearsey--The Chupatties--Disarming of the 19th--Inactivity of Anson--The Sepoys at Lucknow--A Scene at Barrackpore--At Meerut--The Rebellion begins--The Rush on Delhi--The City is sacked--The Powder Magazine--It is exploded--The Fall of Delhi--Sir Henry Lawrence--Energetic Measures at Lahore--Mutiny at Ferozepore--Peshawur is saved--Action of the Civil Authorities--The Siege Train--Death of Anson--John Lawrence in the Punjab--Cotton disarms the Sepoys--The Trans-Indus Region is secure--Mutiny supreme elsewhere--Progress of the Rising--Lucknow--Oude ripe for Revolt--The first Outbreak suppressed--The Ranee of Jhansi--The Five Divisions of Oude 182