ABSTRACT
George Anson, a gambling man was renowned as the best whist player in Europe; he had won 1842 Derby with a horse he had bought for only £ 20. But he could not win against the May heat on the plains of Haryana and died of cholera on the 27th. In spite of being the Commander-in-Chief, Anson was given no military honours, rather he was given quite a private funeral in the burial ground in the evening, and Colonel Charles Chester read the service. In fact, Anson had left Simla on 14 May and reached Ambala on the 15th morning and wrote a letter to Canning. As soon as the Delhi was lost to the British authorities, Karnal became the rallying-point for the Delhi fugitives; and while women and children were passed on without delay to Ambala, those of the Delhi authorities, who had survived, made their stand at Karnal.
