full description of the defenses. The Residency and its surroundings
formed an irregular, lozenge-shaped inclosure, having its acute angles
nearly north and south, the southern extremity being contiguous to the
Cawnpore Road, and the northern point approaching near to the iron bridge
over the river Goomtee. Near the south point of the inclosure was the
house of Major Anderson, standing in the middle of a garden or open court,
and surrounded by a wall; the house was defended by barricades, and
loopholed for musketry, while the garden was strengthened by a trench and
rows of palisades. Next to this house, and communicating with it by a hole
in the wall, was a newly constructed defense work called the Cawnpore
Battery, mounted with guns, and intended to command the houses and streets
adjacent to the Cawnpore Road. The house next to this, occupied by a Mr.
Deprat, had a mud wall, six feet high and two and a half thick, built
along in front of its veranda, and this was continued to the next house,
being raised to the height of nine feet between the houses, and loopholed
for musketry. This next house was inhabited by the boys from the
Martiniere School. It was defended by a stockade and trench, both of which
were continued across a road which divided this house from the next, which
stood near the western angle, and was the brigade messhouse. This house
had a lofty and well-protected terrace, commanding the houses outside the
inclosure. In its rear were a number of small buildings, occupied by
officers and their families.

Next to the brigade messhouse were two groups of low buildings, called the
Sikh Squares, and on the flat roofs of these buildings sandbag parapets
were raised. Next to this, at the extreme western point, stood the house
of Mr. Gubbins, the commissioner, a strong building, defended with
stockades, and having at the angle a battery, called Gubbins' Battery.
Along the northwestern side were a number of yards and buildings, the
racket-court, the sheep-pens, the slaughter-house, the cattle-yard, a