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Inscription on Monument in Multan: Beneath this Monument lie the remains of PATRICK ALEXANDER VANS AGNEW, of the Bengal Civil Service and WILLIAM ANDERSON, Lieutenant, 1st Bombay Fusilier Regiment, Assistants to the Resident at Lahore, who, being deputed by the Governor to relieve, at his own request, Diwan Mulraj, Viceroy of Multan, of the fortress and authority which he held, were attacked and wounded by the garrison, on April 19, 1848; and being treacherously deserted by the Sikh escort, were, on the following day, in flagrant breach of national faith and hospitality, barbarously murdered in the Eedgah, under the walls of Multan. Thus fell these two young public servants at the ages of 25 and 28 years, full of high hopes, rare talents, and promise of future usefulness, even in their deaths doing their country honour. Wounded and forsaken, they could offer no resistance but hand in hand calmly awaited the onset of their assailants. Nobly they refused to yield, foretelling the day when thousands of Englishmen should come to avenge their death, and destroy Mulraj, his army and fortress. History records how the prediction was fulfilled. Borne to the grave by their victorious brother soldiers and countrymen, they were buried with military honours, here, on the summit of the captured citadel, on the 26th of January, 1849. The annexation of the Punjab to the British Empire was the result of the war, of which their assassination was the commencement.
