My journal, or what I did and saw between the 9th June and 25th November, 1857 : with an account of General Havelock's march from Allahabad to Lucknow / by a volunteer.

Date:
1858
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Credit: My journal, or what I did and saw between the 9th June and 25th November, 1857 : with an account of General Havelock's march from Allahabad to Lucknow / by a volunteer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P R E F A C E. Since “my Journal” was written, a long time lias elapsed. Had any one told us on tlie 25th Novem- ber, 1857, that we should not see the fall of Lucknow till the lGtli March, 1858, we should have laughed at him: but so it has happened. For three months did General Outram hold his position at Alum Bagh in the face of a countless army of the rebels, constantly attacked by them, as constantly repulsing their attacks, and now and then himself taking the offensive and driving the enemy back. It was no easy life that his force had there; and, when the history of this Rebel- lion shall be written in full, the holding of the Alum Bagh by Major General Outram and his small force will be looked upon in its proper light, and I hope estimated accordingly. Lucknow has fallen; and the British flag again waves on the Residency. The Volunteer Cavalry has been broken up ; the Oflicers have gone—some to their civil duties, some home, and some elsewhere : the uncovenant- ed Volunteers have been allowed to go and seek other employment: and that little body of men, which the Right Hon’ble the Governor General was pleased to call “ Captain Barrow’s devoted band,” is become one of the “ has beens.” Few will ever remember that, at the
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