. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . y lodged, the victorious commander effected his decisive advanceupon the residency. No wonder that Havelock himself looked back upon the march withastonishment, accustomedas he was to dare all butimpossibilities. Our ad-vance, he writes, wasthrough streets of flat-roofed, loop-holed houses,from which a perpetualfire was kept up, and thuseach forming a separatefortress. I am filled withsurprise at the success ofthe operatio
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . y lodged, the victorious commander effected his decisive advanceupon the residency. No wonder that Havelock himself looked back upon the march withastonishment, accustomedas he was to dare all butimpossibilities. Our ad-vance, he writes, wasthrough streets of flat-roofed, loop-holed houses,from which a perpetualfire was kept up, and thuseach forming a separatefortress. I am filled withsurprise at the success ofthe operation, which de-manded the efforts of tenthousand good advantage gained hascost us dear. The killed,wounded, and missing, thelatter being wounded sol-diers, who, I much fear, some or all have fallen into the hands of a merci-less foe, amounted, up to the evening of the 26th, to 535 officers and those who thus fell was the brave General Neill, a name distinguishedin this unhappy war, who was killed on entering the gate leading to the Doo-lie square.^ Mr. R. Gubbins, who was present during the siege of Lucknow,wrote the following account of the Residency, Lucknow
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