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Rh (since demolished) of the Kaiser Bagh, in order the better to feast his eyes on their dying agonies, and to applaud the prowess of his sepoys. Two years had elapsed since that time, he had been received into favour; his rebellion had been condoned under the amnesty, and he persuaded himself that the memory of that deed had faded away, that even he might hope to die a natural death. But justice, though slowly, was following surely in the criminal’s track, and overtook him when he least expected it from the quarter where he thought himself safest. His own conﬁdential servants turned against him; link after link a wonderful chain of circumstantial evidence developed itself and heaped the guilt with deadly certainty on his head. On the ﬁrst day of October, 1859, on the very spot where his crime was committed, he paid the extreme penalty of the law, and I witnessed the execution. This was followed, on the 12th idem, by the execution of Bande Husain and Fatteh Ali, who had hunted down and brought into Lucknow some of the poor captives massacred here.

A more particular account of this tragedy is given in page 378 of Gubbins' Mutinies in Oudh.

On the north-east of the Canning College, which is situated within the enclosure of the Kaiser Bagh, stand the two tombs of Sadat Ali Khan, and of his wife Khursheid Zadi. Both these tombs were built by their son, Gazi-ud-din Haidar. On the spot on which Sadat Ali‘s tomb now stands, formerly stood the house in which Gazi-ud-din Haidar lived during his father’s reign; and it is reported that when he came to the throne and occupied sadat Ali’s place, he remarked that as he had now taken his father’s house, it was nothing but right that he should give up his own to his father. Accordingly he gave orders to destroy his former abode, and raise, on the site, the tomb of Sadat Ali Khan.

When Havelock’s relieving army was ﬁghting its way to the Residency, it was greatly harassed at this point by the destructive ﬁre from the enemy who held the position in great force. The ﬁring from the top of the tombs was particularly heavy.