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[[Category:Oude Campaign|Lucknow Relief, Second]]
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|combatant1=[[East India Company]]
|combatant2=Rebel Sepoys
|commander1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Clyde [Colin Campbell|Sir Colin Campbell]]
|commander2=
|strength1=
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'''This was part of the [[Events at Lucknow]] during the [[Indian Mutiny]]'''
== Summary ==
Following the success at Secundra Bagh and La Martiniere Colin Campbell's force pressed on and reached the Residency compound. It was decided to abandon the city and the evacuation began on 19 November. James Outram with 4,000 men was left to hold the Alambagh and Campbell reached Cawnpore on 27 November.
== External Links ==
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm The British Empire - Indian Mutiny 1857-58]The British Empire website<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Lucknow#Second_relief Second Relief of Lucknow] Wikipedia <br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wGoBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249&dq=Dil-Khooshah&hl=en&ei=xyMvTOnwBJ- Second Relief WsQbDta22Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Evacuation of Lucknow]Google Books<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucknow Wikipedia - Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh] Wikipedia<br>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1283353/The-incredible-story-soldier-slept-Indian-Mutiny-evacuation--woke-30-000-rebels.html The Incredible story of the soldier who slept through the Indian Mutiny evacuation] DailyMail.co.uk article dated 2 June 2010. The story of Captain Thomas Waterman may be found in ''The History of the Indian Mutiny, Volume 2'' by Charles Ball, 1858, page 92 available on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, computer page 101. ==== Historical Books online ====*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284840 ''A Lecture On The Relief Of Lucknow''] on 7 August 1867 by Colonel H W Norman. 1867 Archive.org*''Forty-one Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief'' by Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar 1900 [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin00robe#page/n248/mode/1up Map with 2nd Relief route] archive.org<br />
== Recommended Reading ==
''"My Indian Mutiny Diary"'' by WH Russell 1967 ISBN 0527781207
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