Invoking the sacred fire...

Chapter 4The Sieges
The Residency at Lucknow
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Sir Henry Lawrence, the most loved Englishman in India, defending a small compound on a knoll above the Goomtee with 1,720 souls against 60,000 rebels. The eighty-seven-day siege that became one of the great holding actions of the nineteenth century.