3-047-189 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'His Horse Was Shot Under Him', c1929. 'At Cawnpore [General Havelock, the Hero of Lucknow] had a horse shot under him...The story of Havelock's work in the suppression of the [Indian] Mutiny...was all compassed within the dates of July 12, 1857, when he fought the first battle at Futtehpore, and November 22, when he died of exhaustion in a litter outside the gates of Lucknow - the city he had saved...' From "Heroic Deeds of Great Men", by C. Sheridan Jones and Alfred Miles, illustrated by Howard Davie and Harry Payne [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, c1929]