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 CHAPTER XVI

Defence of the Lucknow Residency — Battle of Chinhat

At last, on May 30, the regular troops at Lucknow mutinied, excepting the 13th N.I, The measures taken prevented their communicating with the city and confined them to their own part of the cantonments; and next morning they were attacked, defeated, and driven off into the country. In the course of the outbreak in the night Brigadier Handscombe and Lieut. Grant were killed. The city malcontents made no effort at rising that night in concert with the mutiny in the cantonment. Next day however a number of them attempted to cross the river and join the mutineers; but they were promptly met, checked, driven back, and dispersed by the city police, a large proportion of whom had been only newly raised. No hostile movement whatever was made against either the Mutchi Bhown or the Residency, and the detached local regiments remained quiet. This rising at Lucknow was the first mutiny in the heart of India after the Meerut and Delhi outbreak, and gave the signal for the spread of the revolt.