When my friend Banks was about to introduce me to Colonel Munro, he gave me one piece of advice. “Make no allusion to the sepoy revolt,” he said: “and, above all, never mention the name of Nana Sahib.”
Colonel Edward Munro belonged to an old Scottish family, whose members had made their mark in the history of former days.
He was descended from that Sir Hector Munro who in 1760 commanded the army in Bengal, when a serious insurrection had to be quelled. This he effected with a stern and pitiless energy. In one day twenty-eight rebels were blown from the cannon’s mouth—a fearful sentence, many times afterward carried out during the mutiny of 1857.
At the period of that great revolt Colonel Munro was in command of the 93d Regiment of Highlanders, which he led during the campaign under Sir
