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[Donkeymog]

I'll try to get you a picture of a cat inside the cemetery tomorrow. Cats are everywhere. As are rabid dogs, sedate looking goats and the odd stray elephant just roaming around the streets. Oh, and very, very big content looking cows.

[Donkeymog]

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NOT NEAR THIS STONE,

NOR IN ANY CONSECRATED GROUND,

BUT ON THE EXTREME FRONTIER OF THE BRITISH INDIAN EMPIRE

LIE THE REMAINS OF

PATRICK ALEXANDER VAN AGNEW,

OF THE BENGALI CIVIL SERVICE,

AND

WILLIAM ANDERSON,

LIEUT 1ST BOMBAY FUSILIER REGT,

ASSISTANTS TO THE RESIDENT AT LAHORE;

WHO, BEING DEPUTED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO RELIEVE,

AT HIS OWN REQUEST,

DEWAN MOOLRAJ VICEROY OF MOULTAN,

OF THE FORTRESS AND AUTHORITY WHICH HE HELD,

WERE ATTACKED AND WOUNDED BY THE GARRISON,

ON THE 19TH APRIL 1848,

AND BEING TREACHEROUSLY DESERTED BY THE SIKH ESCORT,

WERE ON THE FOLLOWING DAY,

IN FLAGRANT BREACH OF NATIONAL FAITH AND HOSPITALITY,

BARBAROUSLY MURDERED

IN THE EDGAH UNDER THE WALLS OF MOULTAN.

THUS FELL THESE TWO YOUNG PUBLIC SERVANTS,

AT THE AGE OF 25 AND 28 YEARS,

FULL OF HIGH HOPES, RARE TALENTS AND PROMISE OF FUTURE USEFULNESS;

EVEN IN THEIR DEATHS DOING THEIR COUNTRY HONOR:

WOUNDED AND FORSAKEN THEY COULD OFFER NO RESISTANCE;

BUT HAND IN HAND CALMLY AWAITED THE ONSET OF THEIR ASSAILANTS;

NOBLY THEY REFUSED TO YIELD,

FORETELLING THE DAY WHEN THOUSANDS OF ENGLISHMEN

SHOULD COME TO AVENGE THEIR DEATH,

AND DESTROY MOOLRAJ, HIS ARMY AND FORTRESS;

HISTORY RECORDS HOW THE PREDICTION WAS FULFILLED.

THEY WERE BURIED WITH MILITARY HONORS

ON THE SUMMIT OF THE CAPTURED CITADEL,

ON THE 26TH JANUARY 1849.

THE ANNEXATION OF THE PUNJAB TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE

WAS THE RESULT OF THE WAR,

OF WHICH THEIR ASSASSINATION WAS THE COMMENCEMENT.

 

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no cats but I did find a doggie:

 

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And another picture of the streets:

 

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I'm absolutely exhausted. Words later.

[SpazCat]

+1

 

Weird how a cemetery can look so peaceful and spooky at the same time.