Links to Relevant Websiteshttp://www.chapter-one.com/vc/award.asp?vc=511 The Register of the Victoria Cross http://www.chapter-one.com/vc/subbook.asp?book=17 The Victoria Cross is by far the world's most coveted medal for bravery. Cast in bronze from the cannons captured at Sevastopol in the Crimean War (1853-1856), the Victoria Cross retains a mystique that no other decoration has ever achieved. Although instituted more than a century ago and spanning the four most terrible wars in Britain's history, it has been awarded to only 1,350 men, three of whom have won it twice, plus one more for the American Unknown Warrior, who lies buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, as a symbol for all those who died in the Allied cause. The British Unknown Warrior, who was buried in Westminster Abbey, received the Congressional Medal of Honor from the United States Government. He was not awarded the Victoria Cross... William Hall clippings mostly from the Berwick Register http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbrnep/whallvc.htm Map showing location of Lucknow http://mapsofindia.com/maps/uttarpradesh/location.htm Map of Lucknow, Showing operations in 1857 - 1858 http://www.researchpress.co.uk/bmh/lucknow.htm The Siege of Lucknow, 1857 http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/indmut5.htm Lucknow, population about two million people in 2002, is the capital of Uttar Pradesh state, in north central India, on the Gomati River. Lucknow was the capital of the kingdom of Oudh from 1775 to 1856, and then of Oudh province. Lucknow is chiefly notable in the history of British India as the capital of the nawabs who had dealings with Warren Hastings, and their successors the kings of Oudh, whose deposition by Lord Dalhousie was one of the chief causes of the Mutiny. Amongst the events of the Mutiny the defence of the residency of Lucknow comes second in historic interest, after the massacre at Cawnpore. The Indian Mutiny broke out in 1857 and it rapidly became the greatest of all the imperial wars. Lucknow suffered heavy casualties during a siege, June to November, 1857. If Delhi was the symbolic centre of the Mutiny, and Cawnpore provided its most horrific episode, it was Lucknow that caught the imagination of the British public and became, perhaps, the most well-known action of all Britain's 19th century wars. It had all the dramatic elements of a siege and even better, a happy ending. It became indeed a paradigm for later British colonial conflicts. There were the initial reverses, the spectacle of the 'thin red line' battling against overwhelming odds, heroism in the face of adversity, the stoicism of the ladies living in appalling conditions, the death of a gallant commander, finally the sound of bagpipes on the wind and a relief column marching into the British position with flags flying and kilted highlanders leading the way... |
References, Ink-on-Paperthe Indian Mutiny of 1857. A few are mentioned below: Devil's Wind: The Story of the Naval Brigade At Lucknow by Major-General G.L. Verney, 176 pages, published 1956 by Hutchinson & Company, London, England The Indian Mutiny of 1857 by Colonel G.B. Malleson, 421 pages, published 1892; facsimile edition published 1993 by R.J. Leach Company, London, England Battles of the Indian Mutiny by Michael Edwardes, 216 pages, published 1969 by Macmillan Company, New York Lahore to Lucknow: Journals of Arthur Moffet Lang edited by David Bloomfield, 192 pages, published 1991 by Leo Cooper Books, London, England; based on the Diaries of Arthur Lang, an officer in the Bengal Engineers during the Indian Mutiny. Lang played a vital role in the siege of Delhi and was three times recommended for the Victoria Cross. He was also at the recapture of Lucknow. He was the only Engineer Officer who took part in all the main battles of the Mutiny. |
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