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The lot also includes a four-page contemporary copy of Amelia Fancourt's moment-by-moment account of the Mutiny at Vellore of 1806, in which her husband Colonel St. John Fancourt of the 34th Foot was killed. In it she describes how she hid with her children in the house with their ayah ("...she took the children under my bed...and was no sooner there than several shots were fired into the room... the children were screaming with terror at the fire & I expected our last hour had come..."), their escape and rescue. The original of this account is held in the Warren Hastings papers at the British Library (see Ferdinand Mount, The Tears of the Rajas; Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India, 1805-1905, 2015). It was also published, with slight differences, in The Sydney Gazette, June 14 1842. With it, in the same hand, is a copy of a report from a soldier of the rescue party.
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