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Historical Summary - The Hills Districts |
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When this news reached Kohima, preparations were made to resist attack. The sub-divisional officer was summoned from Wokha, 57 miles distant, and arrived with his force of sepoys and police on the 19th October. The stockade was besieged by the Nagas from the l6th to the 27th, when the garrison, who were reduced to great straits for want of food and water, were relieved, and the siege raised, by the arrival of Colonel Johnstone, Political agent of Manipur, with a force of 2,000 Manipuri troops and his own escort of 30 sepoys and a few police. |
