Reception of Colonel Lake and Captain Thompson, at Hull, 1856. Event to welcome the return of '...two of the heroic defenders of the city of Kars [Crimean War]. These two officers, since October last, had been prisoners in the hands of the Russians, having been removed from Armenia to St. Petersburg, on the surrender of the famished fortress to General Burlington, firing as she came along, slackened speed opposite the Victoria six- pounders threw out their blustering welcome, and simultaneously a loud and hearty burst of cheering went up from the ten thousand throat
Reception of Colonel Lake and Captain Thompson, at Hull, 1856. Event to welcome the return of '...two of the heroic defenders of the city of Kars [Crimean War]. These two officers, since October last, had been prisoners in the hands of the Russians, having been removed from Armenia to St. Petersburg, on the surrender of the famished fortress to General Burlington, firing as she came along, slackened speed opposite the Victoria six- pounders threw out their blustering welcome, and simultaneously a loud and hearty burst of cheering went up from the ten thousand throats of the deeply regret to add that, within a few days of this gratifying welcome, one of its brave recipients has been numbered with the dead. Captain lamented young officer had only reached his twenty-seventh year'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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