The work of education may well be longer and harder than that of conquest. The conduct of our countrymen here causes yet too much shame and doubt in thoughtful minds. But when we see the spirit in which many of India's rulers undertake their difficult task—the patient labours of officials, following the pattern of men like Outram, Lawrence, Havelock, the devotion to duty that often meets no reward but an early grave—we take hope that their work may after all weld into strength a free, prosperous, and united nation. And though we wisely forbear to force our faith upon these benighted souls, it rests with ourselves in time, through the power of example, to win a nobler victory than any in the blood-stained annals of Hindostan. Missionary teachings can little avail, if Christians, set among the heathen in such authority and pre-eminence, are not true to their own lessons of righteousness. Standing beside that proudly-mournful monument which now crowns the ridge of Delhi, and raises our holiest symbol over the once-rebellious city, every Englishman should be inspired to a braver struggle than with armed foes, that, mastering himself, he may rightly do his part towards planting the Cross—not in show alone, but in power—above the cruel Crescent and the hideous idols of an outworn creed!
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CHIEF DATES OF INDIAN HISTORY
| Alexander the Great's Invasion of India | B.C. 327 |
| Slave Kings of Delhi | A.D. 1206-90 |
| Tamerlane's Invasion | 1398 |
| Vasco de Gama's Voyage | 1498 |
| Baber founds the Mogul Empire | 1526 |
| Akbar's Reign | 1556-1605 |
| East India Company Incorporated | 1600 |
| Sivajee becomes King of the Mahrattas | 1674 |
| Death of Aurungzebe | 1707 |
| Nadir Shah plunders Delhi | 1739 |
| Clive's Defence of Arcot | 1751 |
| Battle of Plassey | 1757 |
| War with Hyder Ali | 1780 |
| Trial of Warren Hastings | 1788-95 |
| Storming of Seringapatam | 1799 |
| Battle of Assaye | 1803 |
| Overthrow of the Mahrattas | 1818 |
| First Burmese War | 1824 |
| Capture of Bhurtpore | 1827 |
| Lord William Bentinck's Governorship | 1829 |
| Disasters in Afghanistan | 1841 |
| Conquest of Scinde | 1843 |
| First Sikh War | 1845 |
| Second Sikh War | 1848 |
| Conquest of Pegu | 1852 |
| Annexation of Oudh | 1856 |
| The Sepoy Mutiny | 1857 |
| Outbreak at Meerut | May 10 |
| The Mutineers seize Delhi | May 11 |
| General Anson marches against Delhi | May 25 |
| Mutiny at Lucknow | May 30 |
| " " Cawnpore | June 4 |
| " " Jhansi | June 5 |
| " " Allahabad | June 6 |
| Battle of Budlee-Ka-Serai | June 8 |
| Panic Sunday at Calcutta | June 14 |
| Mutiny at Futtehgurh | June 18 |
| Massacre at Cawnpore | June 27 |
| Sir H. Lawrence defeated at Chinhut | June 30 |
| English Retreat into Agra Fort | July 5 |
| Havelock advances from Allahabad | July 7 |
| Nana Sahib routed before Cawnpore | July 16 |
| Mutiny at Dinapore | July 25 |
| Storming of Delhi | Sept. 14 |
| Surrender of the King | Sept. 21 |
| Havelock's Relief of Lucknow | Sept. 25 |
| Sir Colin Campbell marches to Lucknow | Nov. 9 |
| Residency of Lucknow evacuated | Nov. 22 |
| Tantia Topee defeated at Cawnpore | Dec. 6 |
| 1858 |
| Lucknow finally taken | March 21 |
| Taking of Jhansi | April 3 |
| Battle of Bareilly | May 5 |
| Battle before Calpee | May 22 |
| Scindia defeated by the Rebels | June 1 |
| Gwalior taken | June 19 |
| The Queen's Proclamation | Nov. 1 |
| 1859 |
| Tantia Topee taken | April 15 |
| The Queen proclaimed Empress of India | 1877 |
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