The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-13 00:00:00

BRIGADIER INOLLS'S
NARRATIVE OF THE DEFENCE
OF LIICKNOW.

The narrative of the defence of Laoknow has
teen published at Calcutta by order of the oowener-Osawel
of ladia. In a gantral order, bearing dab Dec. 0, the
Oovernor-O•arial asys at it,

The Oevernor-Owasral in Council banes that *am

has • tale Wm told whirl will so stir the hearts d English-
IMO Ned Eaglialiwcenum se the simple, earnest nereative of
Brigadier loglie. It rightfully commences with. soldier's
testimony, touchingly kerne, to the chlvahome chamfer sad
high deserts of Sir Henry Lawrence, the sed dela of whim
death is now made known. There does not deed remadd
is the annals of war an achievement more truly hail
the deft nee of the Residency at Liu:know described in As
sanative which f.llaers. That defence has not cal, mid
forth all the energy sad daring which belong Y Beglian—
Fa
the bur of active eontlict, but it has WOW& mai-
nuoasly, and in the highest degree., that noble aril amisined
courage which, spinet Oliarowts odds wed foe hl dlsedne-
tape, mind hop. deferred, and through matesedat tall eel
wear of body and mind, ,till bolds on day edlar day and
teioapha. The heavy guns of the .—s* e, poled, franc
la security, within arty yards of the entreschamate—se arm,
indeed, that the solicitations, and threats, sad tennis white
the rebels addressed to the wire defenders of the gensime
wen wady heard by those true-hearted men ; the Ire of the
enemy's medurtry, so searching that it peastrailed the tear- '
mid fleet of the women and children, and of the wounded;
thole denprate attempts, repeatedly made, to Mee an mdry
Wier Womb. to the dances; the perpetual alai* of the
waste; the weary night watching fee the espied Opel of
relief; sad the steady waste of precious lives, mill the sae-
hew of English gunners was reduced below Bbd of the pas
lola worked , all those constitute batons is • Idebory which
the Mow-onarry wen of the heroes of Luba, will read
with swelling hearts, and which will sedum fee ever as •
Wen 10 theme who shall hope, by treachery, anamlene, or
Warm in their trews, to overcome the ledeseltalie spirit
ef isfAstrasa."

/BON Mumma mum, CONTILWTHINS GARRISON OT
ILVORNOW, TO TSB SICIILTAZT TO OOTRATIMBUT

TART Dpiaaricurr, caLcurra..

Dated lashrew,hititodi.
eseeterease et the vary des* le e
&KA et Del phisr-Glereal sir H. K. Lingers, X.0.D.,
lele r eaarred et dr Owls Field Peres *sang eterni-
ses he selitlery waste which haw eseened at liedraww
gime the India Jew last her &edger apes emit
Os M. main et that day several ropers essehei Off
BIM Lemma that the esbel snap, R as Try cardheelte
Owe% wend mire hem Matto (a shell dap .het eft
rho Mint is Shored le 1, as Latham t
levies asesiag ; 'Ed dr late herein*
Setterisel le age a dem reemshesse eat dreedes,
w 4 the vhw, it pound% etreelleg the hese at sillishis-
tagaindeishir at he estessee isle the War% of the shy, res. at
the mess the Odral. which la a small sirens blies
=!paid road, about half-way between Leareeeet
east

Tkerforcedietined for this service, and whkh ins e•
posed u ikillowe, moved out at eta a.m. on the neenft if
the 30th of Jura —Arttllery 4 guns of No. Horse
Light Fend Battery, 4 ditto of No 2 Onde Field Denim
ditto of No. 3 ditto ditto ditto, an 8-inch bowline. City •
Troop of Volusteer Cavalry; 120 trooper, of denclunith
belonging to la, iza, and 3el Regiments of Oede Irregular
Cavalry Inkstry 300, her Sisnety's 114,111 th Na-
tive Infantry ; 60, 48th Native Infantry ; 20, 7let Nano In-
(
The .op. misled by the report.' of treythen—who listed
that there were few or no mat Gtwe.. Lucknew end Ain-
hot— somewhat farther than had ben origimilly
ist aad suddenly fell la with the inesay,
who bed up to that tines eluded the vigilante of the
mired guard by ooncial!ng theineeleas behnd • kin Noe of
trees is crershahning imeintais. The Ramses throe end
howitzer, with the Native inhati7, held the be Is oh eh
for some time, and had the aix guns of the Otide artillery been
faithful, end the Sikh cavalry shown a bettor itent, the
day would have bees WAR in *pin of an immense disparity
to amebas. Bat the Oede artillerymen and driven were
traitors. They °vertu:aid the guns ditches, ad the
Mace* al thair horses, aed ahanthowl item reste tithe
remonatnesees and 'tattoos of Ibeir own oMeere Sod of
those of 6,r Henry Lewresce' a staff, headed by the Seigether-
General is person, who himself drew LI. sword upon them
rebel.. Beery effort to induce them to steed having proved
ineffectual. the force erroned to s vastly impeder fro of sr-
awl completely outflanked on both sada* ea amr-
powering body of Infantry and cavalry, whkk site* get
into oar rear, wu compelkd to retire with the kith al the..
permit( ',Olney, which tali into the beads of the insiny, In
conamsecce of the rack treachery of the Oath end
with • very grievous :Ist of killed ant wounded. hest was
dreedfid, the gun ammunition wu expended, end the almost
total want of cavalry to prcuct our rear meth our retreat
moat diesetroas.

AD the ninon behaved well, and the exertions of the small
body of Volunteer Cavalry—only fatty is number—under
Captain Wickliffe, 7th Light Cavalry, were mow praiee-
worthy. Sir Henry Lawrence subsequently conveyed his
thanks to myself, wbo had, st his requeet, sotocopenied him
von thin mission ;Colonel Cam being In command of bee
Majesty's 320 d). He eke expressed his aption oldie
way in which his staff—Captain Wilwn, Oting Deputy
Assistant Adjutant Geuerel ; List-.tenant I lish-Ae-
lastest Cosonsimery-Generel; Captain
Military Secretary ; end Mr. Cooper, Civil the
of whom bed acted es Mr Henry La • Akio-
de •Camp from the cmionencenitmt of the dieksrbeame—
had conducted theme/yes thongliout this weineme dey.
Sir Henry further per icalerly mentioned that he would
bring the pliant conduct of Captaia Radcliffe ma Lieu-
tenant Bonham, of the artillery (who worked the bowilver
sorrowfully until incapacitated by a wound), to the promi-
sent notice of the government of India. The maw in
which Lio tamest Bork, I let N. 1., cleared • valve with
a party of Sikh skirmishers, also the Admiration
of the bridedise-General. The conduct of Bar-
diem, who, with his handful of Ismael, covered the retreat of
tie rem guard, was extolled by air Remy, who impressed
Ids intention of usectiothag the services of this an
officer to his lordsLp in conned. Lieutenant-Cogoust Casa,
who commanded ic,r Majesty's Shed Regiment, wee mor-
tally wounded while galLuitly leading on his mew. The ser-
vice had not a more deserving alter. The command de-
yoked as Captain Stevens, who ulan received a llsoth-wound
shoed, afterwards. The commend then fed to Captain Mans-
bald, who bassists died of cholera. A hat • of the casualties
os thissecesion accompanies the dispatch.
It reseales to report the siege operations.
It will be It the recollection of Ms lordthlp ft oomdl that
It we. the origins! intention of Sir Henry Lawrence to occupy
not only the Itesidetc7, bit also the fort called the Mechbee
noires. an old dilsOlated edifice, which had been hastily
repelred for the week's, though the ddenoes were ems at
the Ltd moment very for from complete, sad were moreover
commanded by many houses in tee city. This situation of
the Mnehhe• Bhowne with regard to the Resirkway has
already been described to the government of India.
The untoward event of the *Lb June so far dhohddied the
whole available force that we had not a sulkiest umber of
men remaining to occupy both positions. The 1
General, therefore, on the evening of the Ist .19:76:-
~
nailed to the garrian of the Muddies Disowns to
evacuate and blow up that forerun in the course of
the night. no ciders were sb:y carried out, and at
12 p m. the form marched into the RoeicLary, with their guns
and tremor*, without the low of a man; end shortly after-
words the szplosion of 240 b irrels bigurpowdor and 6,000,000
ball cartridges, which were !peg in the L.,xgozine, announced
to Sir Henry Lawrence -.nil Lie tdl eis, abo were anxiously
waiting the report, lLe • nitric dr, Irm I i,n of that pod and
all that it crutitned. If It had net :.an for this wise and
strategic measure no member of the LtlAtt.)W garrison, in
ell probability, would Live survivod to tell the tele ; for, es
bas already teen stst,l, the MucliMe Shower was awn-
sanded fr,•rn other parts of the tAre. Ind was moreover in-
differently provided with heavy artillery ammunition, while
the difficulty, 'adoring. and lOU which the Heidsuev veni-
son, even with the reinforcement thus obtained one the
Meehbes Hanson, has understate in b.hling the position is
wadtrient to show tho!, if the erigitel intent:lan of holding
both posts had been a:L rod to, both would have inevitably
bibs.

MI now my very pa:rdul duty to relate the calamity
which betel tui at the cAnmenceratat of the liege. Os the
lit July an S-inch 01,1 burst in thr rsom intim Reddesey
which Sir 11. Lawrence wee ' Ihe aisles beret
between Litt Ul4 Mr. Coups dose tobotti bet without in-
jury to either. The vtuAs of Ma .itoff implored eir Henry to
take up of brr quartera, se the /triodes. y had ibea benne the
spensi target for the viand shut and shell at the essay.
Thia, however, he je,rinely decliatd to do, oisereist that
mother shell wou!.l crruinly never be ;;tched into that mall
room. Du. Providen:e bad ordained otherwise, fur rm the
very swat day he waa nv.rfaily soutuLed by the Antoine of
mother shell which buret in the woe room, exactly at the
0.1.6 'krt. Caoten Wilson, Deputy-Assistast Adjutant,
o~al, received a contusion at the same time.
The Iste laantled far 11 Lalrrnell, knowing that hie brt
hour was tepidly apt F.-aching, directed me toasters tow
nand ol the mots, axed @wanted Major Beet is eneesed
hint is the (Mee a thud cosamiuloser. Be limned
great ',ray till the naming of the 4th Jely, wheel he n-
eted. and the iy,r,ratatut was thereby deprived, if 1 say
vesture to say to, of the servinia ei a diaturdslosi ata.epore
said a vadat gallon midis,. Yew toes have ever yeeoered to
W MOO event the power wlakh he vary*/ of grimier the
beats of all those wrth whom he CAM ts sad thus
41111/trig the warmest and looet makes &Taloa five himself
sad tor the government whit b he served. The ancesnfal
deem el the poet a has been, wader Provident*, measly
altribstaWe to the ft sight ,hich he tem„pg in lb, tbmgy
cemmenclesest rf the 'misery operstioss, end the we
ahlg sod natal activity which ha exhibited is
iVil tiMea into effect. All realm nomemed .ucb °madames
tsmipaest and his fertility of reissues, that the pewee(
lie NI was riceiv.l throughout the perrisout witb %alums of
aumelaudsa Daly second to the grief which was laspirwl WAS

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