The Relief of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny by Thomas Jones Barker.  At the outbreak of the Great Mutiny in May 1857, 1,700 English and Indian troops fortified the residency in Lucknow, 270 miles southeast of Dehli. They took refuge here as a mutineer force approached on 1st July. The garrison held out against 60,000 rebels under Sir Henry Havelock. On 25th September a force of 3,000 men of the British army, commanded by Sir Havelock and Sir James Outram, fought their way into the residency from Cawnpore. After marching for a week through the hostile Oudh, the relief column had over 500 casualties, the garrison inside Lucknow had lost almost as many men, including Lawrence, during the defence of the residency. Sir Havelock died from exhaustion before a second relief force led by Sir Colin Campbell arrived on 19th November. Campbell reinforced the garrison before moving southwest to smother a new uprising in Cawnpore. General Outram held the residency for four months until it was liberated by Campbell on March 21, 1858. The rebel chief Nana Sahib disappeared into the jungle.

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