Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Lucknow

1,519 bytes added, 19:09, 28 June 2009
some database linkups
===The Indian Mutiny===
<small>See also [[Lucknow#Fibis_resources|Fibis Lucknow resources]]</small>
 
'''Summary of events''':
'''Other informationMemorials''':*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_picture&id=198&s_id=181 Memorial to Henry Lawrence] in the Christ Church Cathedral*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_picture&id=197&s_id=181 Memorial to James Outram] in the Christ Church Cathedral*Thomas Henry Kavanagh was a civilian who won the Victoria Cross for his action during the Siege. One of those inside the Residency, he disguised himself as a sepoy in order to escape undetected to the [[Alambagh]] and guide Campbell's forces into Lucknow for the Second Relief. Kavanagh's memorial in the All Saints Garrison Church can be view on the [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=384 FIBIS database].
==Churches==
'''Anglican''':
*All Saints Garrison Church
*Christ Church Cathedral
*St Mary's at the Residency - [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=197&s_id=152 Photos of the cemetery] on the FIBIS database
 
'''Roman Catholic'''
*St Joseph's Cathedral
*Jubilee High School
*Loreto Convent - Catholic school, founded 1872
*La Martiniere College - boys school established 1845, girls schools established 1869. [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=188&s_id=0 Photos on the FIBIS database].
*Reid Christian College
*St. Francis' School and Orphanage - Catholic school, founded 1885
 
 
==FIBIS resources==
As well as those resources already included in appropriate sections, the following can be found on the FIBIS database:
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_class&id=187&s_id=0 Photographs of Lucknow] by C Jackson, a painter and gilder for the Maharaja of Balrampur.
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1&s_id=0 Map of the Residency]
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_document&id=208&s_id=241 Letter from Lieutenant Clifford Mecham] sent during the Defence of Lucknow 1857
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/searchsummary.php?mode=image&kw=lucknow Miscellaneous Lucknow photographs]

Navigation menu