. The history of the world; a survey of a man's record. from Eng-land and the Cape in October, 1857, made it possible to take energetic measuresagainst both these centres of rebellion. The credit of relieving Lucknow belongs to Sir Colin Campbell, a veteran whohad served with distinction in the peninsida, in the Sikh wars, in China, and inthe Crimea. He arrived at Calcutta in August, 1857, to assume the otlice of com-mander-in-chief, and organised an army of relief with such energy that on Novem-ber 17 he was able to extricate tlie hard-pressed garrison of the residency atLucknow. The advance
. The history of the world; a survey of a man's record. from Eng-land and the Cape in October, 1857, made it possible to take energetic measuresagainst both these centres of rebellion. The credit of relieving Lucknow belongs to Sir Colin Campbell, a veteran whohad served with distinction in the peninsida, in the Sikh wars, in China, and inthe Crimea. He arrived at Calcutta in August, 1857, to assume the otlice of com-mander-in-chief, and organised an army of relief with such energy that on Novem-ber 17 he was able to extricate tlie hard-pressed garrison of the residency atLucknow. The advance of a large rebel force upon Cawnpore made it unadvis-able to deal at once with the Lucknow mutineers, and leaving a small garrisonunder Outrani in the Alum Ragh, four miles from Lucknow, as a sign that Oudh wasnot to lie evacuated, he marched to Cawnpore, and there on December G inflicteda decisive defeat on the sepoy leader, Tantia Topee, lieturning to Lucknow inthe early part of 1858, he cleared the city of Nana Sahibs army after a series of ; M/ii-. ;] HISTORY OF THE WORLD 493 attacks which lasted for a fortnight (March 2 to 16). Sir Colin Campbell has beencriticised for want of decision in pressing and following up the assault, and itwould have been a great advantage if the rebels had been surrounded and forcedto surrender. But the \-ictory was a great one, and gained with hut a trifiincr lossof life on the English side. As the result of it Oudh and Kohilkhaud wei-e recov-ered without furtlier difficulty. Nana Sahib fled into the jungle, where it isbelieved tliat he succumbed to fever. Meanwliile the Mahratta district was being reduced by an army sent fromBombay under the command of Sir Hugli Rose. The Eanee Ganga Bai wasexpelled from her hill fort at Jhansi after a desperate siege (March 23 to April 3,1858). She then joined forces with Tantia Topee, and though beaten at Kunch andKalpi, contrived, when her pursuers had halted from sheer fatigue, to take advan-tage of
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