ORDEAL AT LUCKNOW The Defence of the Residency by MICHAEL JOYCE More than eighty years have passed since the out reak of the Indian Mutiny, but the Residency of Lucknow is not forgotten: the men who held an untenable position for a hundred and forty days are still honoured by the flag that is never struck at sunset? but flies day and night above the ruins and every morn ing afresh tribute of flowers is laid on the grave of Henry Lawrence. This is the true story of the three thousand men, women, and children who fought and suffered in Lawrences entrenchment. It is told from their point of view, with only such intelligence of events outside as reached them through the enemys linesa method which does less than justice to Havelock, Outram, Colin Campbell and their men, but which may help us to share the hopes and fears that possessed the garrison from day to day. Those hopes and fears are set down in the letters, journals, and memoirs of the time as fully as the practical details of the...

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