Belton : English commander of the army of Mulai Hamid, the Sultan of Morocco; he resigned in protest against Hamid’s barbaric treatment of political prisoners.
... Indian Daily News , of the stuff of which the Moorish people are made. The narrator is Belton, the Englishman who commanded the Sultan's army and has resigned his post as a protest against the Sultan's primitive method of treating political prisoners. Death and mutilation seem to have been the punishments inflicted. Belton narrates that twenty officers of El Roghi had their right hands cut off and then seared ...
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