men wanted to enter the building and take revenge on the princes, the instigators of the plot; but Lt. Colonel Marriott resisted the attempt of the dragoons to kill Tipu’s sons. Colonel Gillespie is said to have brought the Fort under the possession of the English in about minutes. Col.
Harcourt (Commanding Officer at Wallajahbad) was appointed to the temporary command of Vellore on July . Harcourt assumed command of the garrison on July, and clamped martial law. It was believed that the prompt and decisive action of Gillespie put an end to ‘the dangerous confederacy, and had the fort remained in the possession of the insurgents but a few days, they were certain of being joined by fifty thousand men from Mysore.’ But the obnoxious regulations to which the soldiers objected were withdrawn. The Mysore princes were ordered to be sent to Calcutta, as according the Commission of Inquiry, their complicity could not be established.
The higher tribunals of the Home Government held the chief authorities of Madras, namely the Governor, the Commander-in-Chief, and the Deputy Adjutant General, responsible for the bungling and ordered their recall. Vellore had its echoes in Hyderabad, Wallajahbad, Bangalore, Nandydurg, Palayamkottai, Bellary and Sankaridurg. Vellore Revolt had all the forebodings of Great Rebellion of , if the word cartridge is substituted by cockade and Bahadur Shah and Nana Sahib could be read for Mysore Princes. the firing meant.
He was answered by a volley from the ramparts, killing him instantly. Major Coates, an officer of the English regiment who was on duty outside the Fort, on hearing of the revolt tried to enter the Fort. As he was unable to make it, he sent off an officer, Captain Stevenson of rd , to Arcot with a letter addressed to Colonel Gillespie, who commanded the cavalry cantonment there. The letter reached Arcot, some km away, at a.m.
Colonel Gillespie set out immediately, taking with him a squadron of the th dragoons under Captain Young, supported by a strong troop of the th cavalry under Lieutenant Woodhouse. He