Early in that month sixty worn-out European pensioners were brought to Allahabad from Chunar, with whose assistance, and that of a few hastily raised Volunteers, Lieutenants Russell and Tod Brown, of the Bengal Artillery, were able to overawe and disarm the Native guard on the very night on which the regiments to which they belonged mutinied in the adjoining cantonment.
These two gallant officers had taken the precaution to fill the cellars below the armoury (which contained some 50,000 or 60,000 stands of arms) with barrels of powder, their intention being to blow up the whole place in the event of the sepoys getting the upper hand.
This determination was known to all in the fort, and no doubt had something to say to the guard submitting to be disarmed.] [Footnote 3: He has been accused of dilatoriness and want of decision after hearing the news.] [Footnote 4: Places at the foot of the Himalayas.] [Footnote 5: Now the Marquis of Tweeddale.] [Footnote 6: A small hill state near Simla.] [Footnote 7: It is a remarkable fact that the five senior officers at this conference were all dead in less than seven weeks.

General Anson, Brigadier Hallifax, commanding the Umballa station, and Colonel Mowatt, commanding the Artillery, died within ten days; Colonel Chester, Adjutant-General of the Army, was killed at Badli-ki-Serai on the 8th June, and Sir Henry Barnard died at Delhi on the 5th July.] [Footnote 8: See Kaye's 'History of the Indian Mutiny,' vol.ii., p.
120.] [Footnote 9: The late Sir Douglas Forsyth, K.C.S.I.] [Footnote 10: See 'The Life of Sir Douglas Forsyth.'] * * * * *.