the Maulavi realised that Sir Colin had put his troops in summer quarters than, with a small following, he attempted on the 5th of June to effect a forcible entrance into the town of Powain. The Raja, a supporter of the British, had refused him entry, and when the Maulavi, seated on his elephant, pressed forward to force the gate, the Raja's brother seized a gun and shot him dead. Thus ignominiously, by the hands of one of his own countrymen, terminated the life of one of the principal fomentors of the Mutiny, and its ablest and most persistent supporter.
the end of Maulvi Ahmad-Ullah fo Faizabad
