Dhoke Syedan of Dewal Sharif. Sardar Hasan Ali Khan along with his tribe, and with the help of certain other tribes of Murree, tried to attack the Murree garrison. Immediately after the conclusion of the war of independence of 1857, the British Government constructed a road linking Galyiat and Muree and establish the five cantonments of Bara Gali, Nathia Gali, Dounga Gali, Changla Gali, and Kouza Gali and garrisoned them to protect any future incursion of on Muree Garrison. Attack on Murree By the end of August many of the British troops who had been stationed in hill stations like Murree had left to join the attack on Delhi. Rebels had taken Delhi from British control; the decision to send troops to Delhi reduced further Murree to a more defenseless state. However Delhi still held out against the British and was encouraged by this Dhund tribesmen in alliance with other tribes of Murree tried to seize Murree by simultaneously rising on every side and crowding up the nearer hill-sides threatening the destruction of the station. Several of the Mussulman table-servants were in league with the hill-men, and for some hours the danger to Murree became imminent. The attack failed due to the fidelity of one of Lady Lawrence's personal attendants, named Hakim Abbasi, himself man of one of the tribes that had risen. The loyalty of Hakim was described as "the means, under God, of saving Murree." Alerted to the danger the British organized defenses, and quickly rallied volunteers commanded by Major Luard of the 55th N.I. and Captain HC Johnstone of the 5th N.I. A cordon of sentries surrounded the station and the three weakest points were held in some force; so the Dhoonds (the distinctive name of these disaffected hillmen), stealing up the hill-sides in the dead of night found the whole station waiting for them. After a few hours of skirmishing, the tribesmen retreated with the loss of two or three of their men who had come within musket range of the British. The British however were to learn that the rebellion was wider than just the local tribesmen. It was later found that the conspiracy affected many more clans to a much wider extent than had been suspected. It had reached far into Hazara and nearly down to Rawalpindi. The British also convicted and executed two Hindustani doctors for being involved in the plot. They had