Identifier: indianmutinyof1801mall (find matches)
Title: The Indian mutiny of 1857
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce), 1825-1898
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Publisher: London, Seeley and co., limited
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d byravines. Towards the north-east, where the canal joinsthe Gumti, its banks are naturally shelving and easy. The strong positions held by the rebels within the citywere the Kaisarbagh, a palace about 400 yards square, con-taining several ranges of buildings. It had been completedonly in 1850, and was not originally fortified. The rebels,however, had greatly strengthened it. To the east of theObservatory, overlooking the river, were the Farhatbakhshpalace and the palaces adjoining, the Residency, the ruinsof the Machchi Bhawan, the great Imambarah, the Jam-dniabagh, the Shesh Mahall, All Nakis house, extendingto the west along the banks of the river, the Musabagh,a mile and a half beyond it, the little Imambarah, anda range of palaces stretching from the Kaisarbagh to thecanal. Beyond the canal, on the east of the city, was theMartiniere. Overlooking this and the eastern suburbs, onthe brow of a table-land, stood the Dilkusha. The rebels, profiting by their experience of the British
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Sir Colifis Plan of Attack, 359 action in the previous November, had greatly strengthenedthe line by which Sir Colin had then advanced. Theyhad, too, formed three lines of defence. The first rested onHazratganj, at the point where the three roads into Lakh-nao converge. The right of the second line rested on thelittle Imambarah, thence, embracing the mess-house, itjoined the river bank near the Moti Mahall. The thirdcovered the Kaisarbagh. These defences were protectedby a hundred guns. All the main streets were likewiseprotected by bastions and barricades, and every buildingof importance, besides being loopholed, had an outer workprotecting the entrance to it. Whilst thus protecting the city on three sides, the rebelshad neglected the northern side. Sir Colin detected thiserror, and resolved, in his plan of attack, to take full ad-vantage of it. Whilst, then, he determined to cross the Gumti withhis main force, and to march by the Hazratganj on theKaisarbagh, he would employ a strong

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