the Residency, where he arrived only just in time, for the enemy had
driven two mines right under the defenses, and these would, had the
reinforcements arrived but one day later, have been exploded, and the fate
of the garrison of Cawnpore might have befallen the defenders of Lucknow.

The desperate street fighting had, however, terribly weakened the little
force which had performed the feat. Out of fifteen hundred men who had
entered the city, a third were killed or wounded, among the former being
the gallant Brigadier-General Neil.

With so weak a force it was evident that it would be hopeless to endeavor
to carry off the sick, the wounded, the women, and children through the
army of rebels that surrounded them, and it was therefore determined to
continue to hold the Residency until further aid arrived. The siege
therefore recommenced, but under different conditions, for the increased
force enabled the British to hold a larger area; and although the
discomforts and privations were as great as before--for the reinforcements
had brought no food in with them--the danger of the place being carried by
assault was now entirely at an end.

One noble action connected with the relief of Lucknow will never be
forgotten. Before General Havelock started up from Cawnpore, General Sir
James Outram, his senior officer, arrived, with authority to take the
command. Upon his arrival, however, he issued a general order, to say that
to General Havelock, who had done such great deeds to relieve Lucknow,
should be the honor of the crowning success; and that he therefore waived
his seniority, and would fight under General Havelock as a volunteer until
Lucknow was relieved. A more generous act of self-negation than this was
never accomplished. To the man who relieved Lucknow would fall honor,
fame, the gratitude of the English people, and all this General Outram of