Siege of Lucknow, India mb-code 1619390 MAP SHOWING THE PLACES AT

MAP SHOWING THE PLACES AT WHICH THE SOUNDS OF THE EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD ON AUGUST 26-27 THE SHADED PORTION INDICATES APPROXIMATELY THE AREA OVER WHICH THE SOUNDS WERE HEARD

All are fully annotated on page 60

Cheltenham from the original Picture in my possession by Thos

and not Daguerre

French children cheering their British liberators

Siege of Lucknow, India mb-code 1619390 MAP SHOWING THE PLACES ATSiege of Lucknow, India, 1857, (1893). In 1857, Lucknow, the capital of the state of Oudh, was the scene of a historic defence by the British during the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Mutiny First War of Indian Independence) against British rule. The Siege of Lucknow was one of the key episodes in the unsuccessful rebellion. An engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time,