Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... aside with fierce and feverish haste by the defenders, and the two leaders of the relieving force stood at last within the Residency. Their work was not over. Many a weary week had still to be lived through, but there within the shattered line of defences we may for the time leave them, relieving and relieved alike. The future seemed for the moment assured, and the Union Jack fluttered out gaily in the wind upon the staff" which from that day to this, day in and day out, night in and night out, has borne our colours over Lucknow. Alone among the banners of England all the world over, that upon the battered Residency of Lucknow is never lowered at sunset. There are few other places which would seek such an honour at such a cost; but with the relief of Lucknow ended the real hazard of our Indian Empire, and though many a weary month had still to spend itself in the story of the mutiny, the news of the relief was rightly hailed in England as news almost of the relief of India. chapter viii. the second relief of lucknow. but Havelock and Outram found in the moment of success that they had rather reinforced than relieved the garrison. They had, of course, a wholly different task from that which had confronted Inglis. Without much difficulty the ground between the Residency and the coiling Gumti was secured by the garrison, and the repeated sorties of the defenders succeeded in clearing the houses actually overlooking the ramparts, those very houses from which they had suffered so cruelly for the three interminable months during which the Residency had awaited the coming of Havelock. But it was soon clear that this added strength had not made the evacuation of the Residency any more possible than before. The rebels in Lucknow itself numbered...
