The durbar was held on the twelfth.

I am not aware whether he had any intelligence at that time of the Meerut outbreak.

The telegrams, when they did arrive, were vague; but he indubitably kept on his guard immediately on receiving them.

The Cavalry were piqueted between the cantonments and the Residency, and the Infantry and Artillery were kept prepared for movement.

His plans were evidently already decided; but they were to be effected simultaneously and not successively, and the movements of the Europeans were somewhat dependent on the arrangements of the Quarter-master-General's Department.