Plate 21. Havelock's grave and the alumbagh picket-house. Here, in the allum bagh, a garden just outside the city, from whence he rescued so many of his beleaguered countrymen, repose the remains of the brave and devoted major-general sir henry havelock, k. C. B. It was not until the sick and wounded, and the women and children, had been escorted safely into the camp of the commander-in-chief without the city, that the gallant spirit sank under the ravages of physical disease. He was at his post, performing all the duties of his high command, and, to the casual observer, apparently well on that day. He lived, therefore, to see the consummation of the object for which he had fought so nobly and so long; but in less than a week, on the very day after the last of the besieged had evacuated the baillie guard in safety— havelock was dead. Plate from sketches & incidents of the siege of lucknow. From drawings made during the siege, by clifford henry mecham, lieutenant madras army, with descriptive notices by george couper, esq. Late secretary to the chief commissioner of oude. First edition, tinted lithographed title with vignette, 27 views on 17 tinted lithographed plates, folio, day & son, published 1 oct 1858. Object Type: print. Date: 1 October 1858. Place of creation: London. Dimensions: height: 57 cm (22.4 in); width: 37 cm (14.5 in). Medium: lithograph. P21. Havelock's Grave and the Alumbagh Picket-House (cropped)
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