Download or read book Two Indian Campaigns In 1857-58 written by Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. THE CAPTURE OF LUCKNOW. "Well have we done, thy valiant countrymen; But all not done; the French yet keep the field." King Henry V.--Shakespeare. A Few days after the junction of the column under Brigadier Seaton with that of the Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant Patrick Murray and myself were ordered out with a column under Brigadier-General Walpole, with a company of native sappers, to the Bamgunga Kiver, distant about 10 miles from Futtehgurh. The enemy were on the other side of the river in considerable force with two or three guns, and occasionally sent a round shot into our c& but this fire was almost immediately silenced by our guns. On one occasion a round shot pitched right into the tent where Murray and myself were sitting, smashing the table that was between us, and embedding itself in the ground in the floor of the tent. The shot was of irregular shape, about the size of a large orange. The movement of a force to the Ramgunga River, which was not fully understood at the time, was afterwards ascertained to have been a feint to induce the rebels to suppose that we were meditating an invasion into Bohilcund while Sir Colin Campbell concentrated his forces for the capture of Lucknow. The ruse answered its purpose very effectually, as it kept a consider Major Murray was afterwards 2nd in command of the Bengal Sappere and Miners, and died at Koorkee in 1872. able number of the enemy engaged in watching our movements. It was at this time that the outline of the proposed operations for the reduction of Lucknow were drawn up. In a memorandum to Lord Canning, dated December 22nd, 1857, Sir Colin Campbell wrote: --"Colonel Napier has given the deliberate opinion, in which I coincide as regards numbers, that 20,000 men were...