3 Review(s)

This authoritative and exhaustively researched 3 volume work gives a narrative of the Revolt of 1857, reviewed and illustrated from original documents. The author was the Keeper of the Archives (then known as the Imperial Record Department), and had access to all sorts of documents, narratives, treaties, archives, both British and Indian. The three volumes have been divided chronologically, and details all the main players, and events, major and minor, of the Revolt. The 1st volume notices the early signs, the outbreak in Delhi and Meerut, the capture of Delhi, the siege, the arrival of the moveable column, the recapture of Delhi by the British, the annexation of Oude, first signs in Lucknow, the battle of Chinhut, siege of Lucknow, Cawnpore, Banaras, Allahabad, the massacre at Cawnpore, etc This volume has 18 illustrations and 5 maps. Volume 2nd describes Havelock’s succor of the Lucknow Residency, the second defense, the relief, Alum Baug, capture of Lucknow. This volume has 11 illustrations and 1 map. The