2-710-930 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Relief of Lucknow - Leading the Sufferers to the British Camp', (1901). The siege of Lucknow was one of the major engagements of the uprising against British rule in India which began in 1857. The city was besieged by mutineers for 87 days from the outbreak of the mutiny until a British force arrived on 25th November 1857. After 'The Relief of Lucknow', a painting made c1869, in the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. I. - To The End of the Indian Mutiny", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]