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XTH'Ei EAGLE
9ierre to my LOrd, Gutts in case they were frozen in, to gett quarters for the men: and
he had sent’ Cornet Renouard on purpose to the Hague with the application made to my
THE ,1) AVG LE
“ Came to an anchor at Spithead, Tuesday ye 26 February.” “The King of Spain sayled from Spithead Sunday ye 23d, and with him Captain Killi-
Lord Cutts, and by him to the States; but -one Sadler that was employed about the trans-
grew,
port, telling the said Lord Cutts that wee
men, recruits of the regiment.” “ Tuesday, March ye MIL—Sett
were going to sail, he left off the sollicitation upon the supposition wee were gone. We remained in a distressed condition: no money, not above three days” provisions, the rivers frozen, and a great many men sick. Some boats from Rotterdam came and brought 'us
provisions.
The States sent three Commis-
sioners of their body to the Brill, who sent for all the Commanding Officers at Helvoet Sluice to come there at the Brill, which they
Lieutenant Farnham, Cornet
Best,
Cornet Tyboury, GL-Mr. Lightfoot and 113 sail
from
St. Helen‘s with a very fair wind under the convoy of ten men of—war, Dutch and English commanded by Vice~Admiral Sir John Lake, six of ye men-of-war parted with us off the Burlinges, and went some to ye East and some to ye West Indies, " “Monday, ye 132th of March ”Oat—Came to an anchor before the Castle of Lisbon, where the King of Spain with the squadron under
They offered us, in
Sir George Rooke‘s Command was come live
the name of the States, shipping, provisions, quarters, money, and whatever we wanted. We tookalittle money, £620, forye Regiment: and the frost being gone and the weather My Lord Duke opened, we refused quarters. of Marlborough landed the next day at Helvoet Sluice. He saw some of the men there, and found them shrunk much. Some time
or six days before with the army on board, of which none were yet landed, and began only to land aboutye16 or 18. " The allied force sent to Lisbon was compOSed of 4,000 Dutch under General Fagel and 6,000 English under the Duke of Schomherv. The Archduke Charles had been receivejd with great honour on his arrival there on the 6th of March, but no preparations had been made for the approaching campaign. The
did the 26th of January.
after application was made to him by M. St. Pierre to desire the men should he putt to full allowance, upon which my Lord writt to Captain Atkinson to do it, if it was possible without any prejudice to ye service,
being very much as he thought for her Ma» jesty’s Service, anda means to recover the sick and strengthen the rest.
Captain Atkin-
son agreeing with the reasonableness of the thing, answered my Lord by letter, and prom~ ised that we should be putt at full allowance if we sayled soon with a fair wind. He gave good words to my Lord Duke, and to us, and did nothing." “The John and William being gott off from the bankside and refitted, it was given again
to the
regiment; St.
Pierre and Wyvill
put two troops on board of her, and wee sayl— ed for England with a fair wind Saturday
ye 23 of February.”
army of Portugal was thoroughly inefficie nt ;
the fortresses were in a dilapidated condition great difficulty was experienced in mounting;
the English cavalry, which had been guaranteed by the Portuguese Government, and all difficulties were increased by Fag-91 being (,1, bad terms with Schomberg. On the other hand, the state of affairs in Spain was very different, where the Duke of Berwick, a
nephew of the
Duke of
Marl-
borough, and a man of great military talent, was in Chief Command. In addition to the Spanish tr00ps, his force was
increased
by
12,000 Auxiliary French, the numbers of all amounting to 35,000 men with reserves.
Phi»
lip of Anjou, the rival of Charles, accompanied the army iu person, and the most careful preparations had been made. 3
LUGKNOW.
BY MAJOR G. F. STEELE. (Continued) The various stages connected with the relief of Lucknow require a little explanation, as one frequently hears the first, second, and sometimes the third relief spoken of, so in
case some of my readers are confused by this, I must point out that the Siege of Lucknow began on June 30th. After several attempts, Sir Henry Havelock and Sir James Outram forced their way into the Residency, but were too weak to get the garrison away, and consequently the siege went on until, on November
17th, Sir Colin Campbell fought his way in and removed the whole garrison. Then in March of the following year, 1858, Sir Colin Campbell returned with a strong force and re-took
Lucknow, which had been left entirely in the hands of the. rebels, with the exception
of the Alum Bagh which had been held by Sir James Outram, since the relief. In order to appreciate the difficulties with which the relieving force had to contend, I propose now to give you the route followed
by Sir Henry Havelock. With this end in view let us first of all make our way to the Alum Bagh. Straight down the Outram Road, leaving the Hospital and the Brigade parade-ground on our left, we find the
Cawnpore Road crossing our front.
There is
no mistaking it as our own road stops where the two join. Turn to the left and we reach the Alum Bagh in two miles. Just before
reaching the Cawnpore Road we pass the
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A fine house stood in the centre and can still be seen there. From the roof of this house communication was established with the Residency by semaphore, but now you cannot see the one from the other owing to the trees which have grown up between them. Close to the house you will find the grave of Sir Henry Havelock, who died at Dilkusha just after the relief on the 24th November. At ‘2 RM. on the 23rd September, Have-» lock’s advanced troops found the enemy in position with his left resting on the Alum Bagh, and extending about two miles to some mounds on the right. The country at the time was under water, and the rain was coming down in torrents, which did not make the attackers’ task any easier. But led by such men as Havelock, Outram, Neill and Olpherts, I verily believe that nothing could have stood against them, especially when we remember that the force was composed of men who had the massacre of Cawnpore fresh in their minds, they having arrived only just too late to save their countrywomen The result was that the 5th and 78th stormed the walls and cleared the enclosure, and a vigorous pursuit was conducted by the few horsemen under Barrow and Outram almostup to the Yellow House, where they found fresh troops strongly inirenched. As darkness had already set in, Outram withdrew to the Alum Bagh, and on his way he received a despatch saying that Delhi had fallen. One canimagine how welcome this news must have been and to what further efforts it must have spurred them, especially those-
()ctroi post, and opposite to it on the righthand side you will see a small praying-place where formerly stood a Mosque which adjoined the Yellow House, nolonger standing, but to which I shall refer later. The Alum Bagh, like so many other gardens round Lucknow. was built by a king of Oudh
of us who remember how, when seatedon Pieter’s Hill, we heard the news of Cronje’s
for a favourite wife. The garden was, and still
as well, before entering meknow, so, that. it, was not ti118 A.M. on the 25th September that theystarted. From the moment they passed
is, abOut five hundred yards square, enclosed by astrong wall with turrets at each angle.
surrender on the 27th February, 1900, and the Way that determined us to relieve Ladysmith.
Greatly to the chagrin
of the troops,
Havelock wisely decided to make them rest
that'night, and the following day and night