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316  who fell into the hands of the Nawab of Futtyghur and the Nana Sahib, were executed by being blown from guns; and even the greased cartridges, to which they at first objected, when their own time came, they are said to have readily used to murder the Europeans who fell into their hands.

Though, unhappily, too late to save those who suffered at Cawnpore, the relieving army were destined, after endurance and valor which received the admiration of all who ever heard of it, to reach and rescue the larger garrison of Lucknow, which, as the reader will see on the map, lies forty-three miles beyond Cawnpore.

The Mission of the Queen of Oude in 1856 had failed, the decree had gone forth and was unalterable, and an English Governor ruled the kingdom, which became a part of British India. His official residence—ere long to become so famous—is shown in the picture on the opposite page. This building, before the annexation, was the home of “the Resident,” or English Embassador, at the Court of Oude, and afterward became the house of “the Chief Commissioner,” or Governor, of the kingdom, and was therefore called “The Residency.” No record of human endurance exceeds that which was here exhibited from June to November, 1857. “The Story of Cawnpore” is, alas! more tragical; but for the great qualities of the heroic and the enduring, Lucknow may well challenge human history to furnish a higher example, especially when we remember the number of women who were here shut up, and how nobly they bore themselves amid risks and sufferings which only Christian women of our Anglo-Saxon race could bear to the bitter end, and yet emerge from them all in moral triumph. Nearly a dozen volumes, by different hands—three of them from the pens of ladies—have presented the facts to the world. They abundantly show how nobly woman can illustrate the virtue inculcated by Virgil: “Do not yield to misfortunes, But advance to meet them with greater fortitude.” Probably there never was such a siege as that of Lucknow. History seems to have no parallel to it in its extraordinary