Add to ORKGExterior view of a city in the Punjab with an indigenous man sitting in the foreground. The city is probably Sialkot which is situated on the fertile plains at the base of the Himalayan range by the Chenab River. Sialkot was annexed by the British in 1849 and a cantonment established as a frontier military station. When the Church of Scotland chose it as the base for their missionary work in the Punjab in 1857, they sent Thomas Hunter (1827-1857) who was murdered with his family during the Sepoy Rebellion that same year. His successors, John Taylor (1837-1868) and Robert Paterson, would not arrive in Sialkot until 1860 and rapidly expanded the field. The mission would open orphanages, schools, hospitals and do zenana work in Sialkot and thr...