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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. 1858...Jl leave the palace (which is a perfect town inside), but kept up a Jro on us for some days (rum some inaccessible towers.". THE KCSIDENCY DVIUXO THE SIEGE. "We Imva now to describe the course of events at the Residency ubseqttent to the junction of Havelock's force (at which point Bnadier Inglis breaks off), and up to the arrival of Sir Colin CampKill. This gap in the story of the defence at Lucknow--a lefence which will rank in history with the defence of Malta, if Rhodes, and of Deny--we must fill up with personal narraive. The letter from which we now take some extracts is full of graphic touches calculated to awaken the most lively emotions of )ity and admiration. The letter has assumed the form of a diary, cept up with intermissions from the day Havelock's force entered ho Residency till the final exodus under Sir Colin Campbell. It ealiscs to our imaginations the life endured for months by Englsh men, women, and children, under incessant showers of musket jnd cannon balls from above, with occasional explosions of mines torn below. Delicate ladies and tender infants were compelled to inciter themselves in holes in the earth; and even there they were mperfectly secured from the shot and shell, and not at all from he mines of the besiegers. The wounded were destitute of the nost necessary medicines and dietetic comforts; even clean rags "or their wounds were not to ho had. Yet amid all these horrors, benevolence triumphed over selfish terrors. When we think of he ladies walking the hospital, tending ami soothing the sick inder such circumstances, it is as if the days had indeed come back when angola walked the earth. Where all the men were brave,:t might appear invidious to dwell exclusively on the deeds and sufferings of a few; but the d...