The soldiers of Roorkee whowere instigated by Nawab Mahmud Khan to attach Bijnor were short ofammunition and District Magistrate of Bijnor had made all necessarypreparation to resist them. On 21st May, 1857 at about 1 p.m. firing washeard in the Bijnor jail was broken. The prisoners ran ...
question from Kansas to Washington; and even before the people of the Territory had practically decided it by the respective popular votes of December 21,1857, and January 4,1858, it had become the dominant political issue in the Thirty-fifth Congress, which convened on December 7, 1857. The...