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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt:...he spent the remainder of his life, are facts unknown to us, though a report reached us, some time afterwards, that he and his brother had died in the jungle. Many another story might be related about those dreadful days: how the native soldiers in most of the Indian towns rose up and murdered any English people they could find; and as we cannot relate all of them, we must close our account of the mutiny by telling how bravely the people in Lucknow met their trouble when it came to them. OF THE MUTINY. TaT Lucknow, the English people living there had taken up their abode in what was called the Residency, which consisted of a number of houses, enclosed by a wall. One of the houses belonged to Sir Henry Lawrence, the governor of the town, who was fired upon and killed just when he seemed to be most needed. Very crowded every house was, but, of course, that could not be helped. Once or twice the sepoys had attacked the Residency, intending to treat the inmates as they had done the poor creatures at Cawnpore, but Sir Henry had told them to keep as brave hearts as they could: for General Havelock, and Sir James Outram, and Sir Colin Campbell, with their English soldiers, were on their way to Lueknow, and that as soon as they arrived the sepoys would be made to fly. Of course, it was just like being in prison all this time; whoever ventured out was almost sure to be fired upon by one of the sepoys, who kept a very strict watch, you may be sure. A dear little girl one day was playing in the courtyard, when a bullet struck the child on the head and killed her. No wonder the mothers were afraid to let their children go beyond the door; consequently, the rooms were all so full that there was no such thing as a breath of fresh air to be had. when there was no food, an...