cantonments were three miles distant from the Residency, and were occupied
by the Thirteenth, Forty-eighth, and Seventy-first Native Infantry and
Seventh Native Cavalry. Her majesty's Twenty-second Regiment, a battery of
European artillery, and a small force of native horse.

On the evening of the 30th of May the revolt broke out. It began in the
lines of the Seventy-first, and spread at once to the other native
regiments, who took up arms, fired the bungalows, and killed all the
officers upon whom they could lay hands. Happily all was in readiness, and
a company of European troops, with two guns, took up their post on the
road leading to the city, so as to bar the movement of the mutineers in
that direction. Nothing could be done till morning, when Sir Henry
Lawrence, with a portion of the Thirty-second, and the guns, moved to
attack the mutineers. The British were joined by seven hundred men of the
various regiments, who remained true to their colors, and the mutineers at
once fled, with such rapidity that, although pursued for seven miles, only
thirty prisoners were taken.

The troops then marched quickly back to the Residency, where their
presence was much needed, as there was great excitement in the town, and a
good deal of fighting between the police and the roughs of the city, who
endeavored to get up a general rising and an indiscriminate plunder of the
town. Sir Henry Lawrence upon his return restored order, erected a large
gallows outside the fort and hung some of the rioters, executed a dozen of
the mutinous Sepoys, rewarded those who had remained faithful, and for a
time restored order. All the European residents in Lucknow were called
into the lines of the Residency, the small European force being divided
between that post and the Mutchee Bawn, a strong fort three-quarters of a
mile distant, and the remnant of the native infantry regiments who had so
far remained true, but who might at any moment turn traitors, were offered