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Laying the first stone of the Lucknow Memorial, 1864. Creator: Unknown.

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Laying the first stone of the Lucknow Memorial, [Lucknow, India], 1864. Engraving of a photograph, of '...the scene on Saturday, the 2nd of January, when the first stone of a monument was laid to commemorate the sufferings and death of those English men, women, and children, who perished during the siege of the [British] Residency, from the 30th of June, 1857, to its first relief...on the 22nd of November in that year...[The] ceremony was performed by Sir George Couper..., Judicial Commissioner of Oude...The clergy, represented by the Rev. M. R. Burge, Captain Pemberton and the members of the memorial committee, the civil and military officers of Government, and other residents...or visitors, held their due places in the procession; and among the ladies...were fifteen or sixteen who had themselves been shut up in the siege of Lucknow,...and had shared the trials and dangers of those who died before the day of relief. Sir George and Lady Couper were indeed of this number, as well as Colonel and Mrs. Barwell, Major and Mrs. Aitken, and others...General M'Duff, C.B., commanding the garrison at Lucknow, with his Staff, and Colonel Patton, commanding a guard of about five hundred of the 107th, 5th Lancers, and Artillery, represented the Army'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A25_417

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Droits gérés

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30,4Mo (3,1Mo) / 33,1cm x 23,0cm / 3911 x 2721 (300dpi)

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