Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — LIEUTENANT C. J. W. GRANT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LIEUTENANT C. J. W. GRANT.

Tine Gallant British Offloer Recently Promoted to the Rank or Major. Lieutenant Grant, of Manipur celebrity, who showed suoh skill and bravery in defending an intrenced position near Thobal, garrisoned by fifty Sepoys and forty Ghoorkas, against almost the entire Manipuri army, has been deoorated with the Victoria Cross and has been promoted to the rank of major. With ninety men he defeated 4,000 Manipuris, and took Fort Thobal when he reached Manipur on the march from Tamur. Grant and his brav«j command held Fort Thobal three days, and then repulsed au attack of the Manipuris at Alongtaing after three hours’ desperate fighting, during which

Sanuputtv prinoe and his two generals were killed and the Manipuris driven off ic the jungle by Lieutenant Grant’s men of the Second Burtnahs. Major Grant is but 30 years of age.