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The Siege of Lucknow; A Diary
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The Siege Of A Diary
Lady Julia Selina (Thesiger) Inglis
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1892
India; Lucknow (India)
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or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
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The Siege Of A Diary
Lady Julia Selina (Thesiger) Inglis
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1892
India; Lucknow (India)
80 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1892
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Julia Selina Inglis
3 books1 followerJulia Selina (Thesiger) Inglis (a.k.a. Lady Inglis), daughter of Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, PC, QC, FRS and wife of Major General Sir John Eardley Wilmot Inglis, KCB, is best known for her firsthand account (published in 1892) of Siege of Lucknow in 1857 during the Indian Mutiny (or, Rebellion) of 1857-1858.
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March 25, 2016
I recently finished "A Diary Kept By Mrs. R. C. Germon, At Lucknow, Between The Months Of May And December, 1857" and the two diaries are so similar that I feel justified in copying parts of my previous review here :
This is a first-hand account of the siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny in 1857.
For three months military personnel, women and children lived under ever more difficult conditions in the residency compound, surrounded by the mutineers and desperately awaiting reinforcements, all the while looking death in the face, either of starvation, being blown up or suicide ("several of the ladies had poison at hand").
While they were trying to hang on news reached them of atrocities committed in other parts of the country, worst of all the bloody Cawnpore massacre.
In an almost matter-of-fact way Lady Inglis who surprised herself by her ability to cope, describes the overcrowded conditions, the ever growing shortage of food and the almost constant enemy fire they had to endure.
Trapped in the compound they suffered under the extreme heat, rats, mosquitoes, flies, centipedes and scorpions. They died of bullet wounds, exploding mines, suicide (rare), sunstroke, smallpox, dysentery, scurvy and cholera and were buried in mass graves.
Lady Inglis doesn't go into details about the Cawnpore Massacre and despite all the suffering never loses her faith in God. She tells of how the garrison kept up their spirits well, that "the instances of cowardice and shirking were very few" and that there were innumerable instances of selflessness and bravery.
Lady Inglis' hardship doesn't end with the chaotic evacuation of the residency in Lucknow and the escape via Allahabad to Calcutta : on the way to Ceylon her ship sinks ! Still, in the end she was one of the fortunate ones as her husband and her three children survived.
This is a first-hand account of the siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny in 1857.
For three months military personnel, women and children lived under ever more difficult conditions in the residency compound, surrounded by the mutineers and desperately awaiting reinforcements, all the while looking death in the face, either of starvation, being blown up or suicide ("several of the ladies had poison at hand").
While they were trying to hang on news reached them of atrocities committed in other parts of the country, worst of all the bloody Cawnpore massacre.
In an almost matter-of-fact way Lady Inglis who surprised herself by her ability to cope, describes the overcrowded conditions, the ever growing shortage of food and the almost constant enemy fire they had to endure.
Trapped in the compound they suffered under the extreme heat, rats, mosquitoes, flies, centipedes and scorpions. They died of bullet wounds, exploding mines, suicide (rare), sunstroke, smallpox, dysentery, scurvy and cholera and were buried in mass graves.
Lady Inglis doesn't go into details about the Cawnpore Massacre and despite all the suffering never loses her faith in God. She tells of how the garrison kept up their spirits well, that "the instances of cowardice and shirking were very few" and that there were innumerable instances of selflessness and bravery.
Lady Inglis' hardship doesn't end with the chaotic evacuation of the residency in Lucknow and the escape via Allahabad to Calcutta : on the way to Ceylon her ship sinks ! Still, in the end she was one of the fortunate ones as her husband and her three children survived.
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