Identifier: accountofmutinie00gubb (find matches)
Title: An account of the mutinies in Oudh and of the siege of the Lucknow Residency; with some observations on the condition of the Province of Oudh and on the causes of the mutiny of the Bengal Army
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Gubbins, Martin Richard, 1812-1863
Subjects: Lucknow Oudh
Publisher: London R. Bentley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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f.—Mr.Ommanneys enclosure.—Slaughter-house; sheep-house;church ; Evans battery.—Innes post.—Redan battery.—Surroundingnative buildings —Some of these pulled down, on the west and north-west.—Residency.—Telegraph upon its roof.—Banqueting-hall.—Dr.Fayrers house.—Post-office.—Mr. Ommanneys house.—Fall in valueof public securities.—Cessation of public and private credit.—Stateprisoners.—Mr. Gubbins levies.—Abdoolazeez Khan Risaldar ; theartillery darogha Meer Furzundalee ; the overseer Ramadeen ; thearchitect Pirana ; the smith Golaub.—Desertion of all the remnantsof Irregular Cavalry.—Sir Henry Lawrences exertions to provision thegarrison.—Native pensioners got in.—Measures taken to secure theallegiance of the talooqdars.—Gunpowder and treasure buried.—Vo- flan d fyt Intrenched Position -OF THE BRITISH GARRISON AT Compiled from tike Survey made by LieiW WMooTsomRM. 52l.MrTSS7. REFERENCES Imw of defences she wn~by a ihzck Izm Quns ..; Mortars
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.--.-— ■- .. . >..:..-_-.■!■.• -t-I .-; r ■ .-t ■.:-.- tT->.s:Dr THE MUTINIES IN OUDH. 145 lunteer Cavalry raised by Captain Radcliffe.—Discovery by CaptainFulton of the native guns, and 8-inch howitzer.—Seizure and executionof conspirators.—Communications received from Sir Hugh Wheeler.—News brought by Mr. Gubbins cossids of the destruction of theCawnpoor force.—Despatch to Major Renaud.—Escape of LieutenantsDelafosse and Thompson.—Remarks on the Cawnpoor catastrophe.—Removal of the Kings jewels from the Kaiser Bagh.—First fall ofrain. The recurring tidings of these disasters which dailyand hourly reached us, being brought in either by thefugitives themselves, or inferred from the ominousstopping of the post from each successive station,deeply moved Sir Henry Lawrence. Though intend-ing to hold the Eesidency also, he had all along re-garded the Muchee Bhowun as his place of strength.Now, therefore, on the 8th of June, he proposed toremove thither

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