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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 129
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2.—A Personal Narrative of tlie Siege of...
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Notices Of Books. 129
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 129
2.—A Personal Narrative Of Tlie Siege Of...
2 . —A Personal Narrative of tlie Siege of _LucJcnowfrom , its Commencement to its . Belief by Sir Colin Campbell . BL . E . , Kees . Lonan and Co
London . y gm ., Mr . Rees , a merchant of Calcuttaon a journey to the U
Provinces in the transaction of business , found himself " suddenl pper , y entangled in the meshes of the siege of Lucknow , " and having ,
perforce , been obliged to take part therein , this volume , enriched with extracts from the journals of Lady Inglis and Lieutenant
Farquhar , is the result . Mr . Rees ' s narrative of the gallant defence of Lucknow , which we are yet too near to see in all its heroic
portions , has the keen zest of personal participation and experience pro and is , by far , the most complete and interesting account we have ,
¦ yet warning had . Mr Leaving . _Eees received Calcutta of on the the approaching 10 th of May fearful , 1857 outbreak , the first was
at Benares , where intelligence of the barbarities committed at Meerut and Delhi had already arrived . From Benares he
residents ceeded to in Allahabad great alarm , where , as he he himself found thoug the Europeans ht unnecessaril and y , ativ pro and e
where he remained a week , forming " one of a garrison "where soldiering was enacted in a very pleasant mode . Capital dinners
first-rate wines , cheroots , songs , music , were the order of the day , , with a little patrolling and keeping watch . " At the end of this
week , spite of -warnings and cautions , he continued his journey , and reached Lucknow without accident on the 22 nd of May . Here he
found fresh alarm , and Sir Henry Lawrence making extensive preparations for defence , and a few days afterwards a general rising
took place . For the thrilling and graphic details of what followed we must
refer the reader to the book itself . The narrative is simply and unaffectedly told , and is the best and most complete picture we possess
of the horrors and sufferings of the devoted band whose final deliverance from a situation of unexampled terror and danger took
place just six months after the first outbreak . Lucknow was evacuated on the 22 nd of November , and , after a succession of forced
marches , Sir Colin Campbell having received intelligence inimical to the safety of the party , they finally neared Cawnpore to hear :
too * ' the , was booming visible , of and cannon , as we at approached a distance . , we What found could ourselves it mean in ? the A larg midst e fire of , pore G war wali , again on or the rebel . other Bri sheaded gadier side W of h the Nan dham canal a Sahib h , ad was been Koer in enti ef Sing e re ate possession d , and and other the of station insu a large rgent of arm chiefs Cawn y of
-, y , , . generalshi But for the p , th rap e brid idit g y of of bo Sir ats C would olin C amp e be ll e 's movements ost , and we sh and ould his ha superior ve been front cut off and from anoth all er communication in our rearThe with rebel the Mah other rattas side had , w actual ith an l enem broug y ht in some our
guns to bear upon our troops . , but our artillery silenced them y before others Cawnpore could be conveyed entrenchments to the . - river He remedied ' s edge . Sir the Colin mistakes Campbell of the had ' hero saved of the the Hedan
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/57/
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