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*[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.searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=384 FIBIS database].
[[File:Battlefield.png]] ==Recommended reading==*''Lucknow – Families of the Raj'D''' - [[First Lucknow Relief|The Residency]]by Malcolm Spiers, published 2013. [[File:Battlefield.png]] A review by Richard Morgan is contained in '''E''' - [[Battle of Imambara|Great ImambaraFIBIS Journal]] [[File:Battlefield.png]] '''F''' - [[Battle of Moosa Bagh Number 30 (LucknowAutumn 2013)|Moosa Bagh]] [[File:Battlefield.png]] '''G''' - [[Battle of Alambagh (Lucknow) Nov 1857|Alambagh]]page 45
*[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Lucknow Lucknow] Love to Know 1911
→Historical books online
|coordinates= [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=26.8128,80.9013&spn=0.1,0.1&q=26.8128,80.9013 26.812800°N, 80.901300°E]
|altitude= 123 m (404 ft)
|presentname= [http://wwwen.1911encyclopediawikipedia.org/wiki/Lucknow Lucknow]
|stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh Uttar Pradesh]
|country= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]
|transport= ‘[[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]]’(O&RR)<br>[[Great_Indian_Peninsula_Railway_-_Lines_owned_and_worked#GIPR_Midland_Branches|‘Great Indian Peninsula Rly’(GIPR]]<br>‘[[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]]’ (R&KR)<br>[[Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway| ‘B&NWR Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway’]]''See page'' '''[[Lucknow Railways and Stations]]''' ''for details''
}}
{{Places of Interest|title=Lucknow|name=Lucknow |link=http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211401480495186034184.0004b92ce01c865bf35dc&ie=UTF8&ll=26.826522,80.956535&spn=0.116422,0.150547&t=m&z=13&vpsrc=1}} '''Lucknow''' is , a city in north-central India, about 250m/400km south-west 500 km southwest of [[Delhi]], was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V16_187.gif Lucknow District] in the Lucknow Division of United Provinces during the British period. <br> It was the scene of a major siege during the [[Indian Mutiny]], when the Residency was defended against great odds by a small group of soldiers and civilians, including schoolboys from La Martiniere College.
==Spelling variants==
Modern name: Lucknow<br>Variants: Lukhnow,/Luknow/Lakhnao/Lakhnau/Nucklao
== Military history ==
For details of events during the [[Indian Mutiny]] see main article [[Events at Lucknow]]
==Volunteer Regiments==
"Lucknow is the head-quarters of the [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps|Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Volunteer Rifles]], the [[Lucknow Volunteer Rifle Corps|Lucknow Volunteer Rifles]] and the [[Oudh Light Horse|Oudh squadron of Light Horse]]"<ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V16_203.gif Lucknow] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 16'', page 197</ref>
==Maps==
==== FIBIS database ====
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=672&s_id=98 1901 map of Lucknow, updated to show cemeteries]*[http://wwwfibis.searchourarchives.fibis.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1&s_id=0 Map of the Residency]
==Transport==
==Churches==
'''Anglican''':
*All Saints Garrison Church- (see External links section below for photos).
*Christ Church Cathedral
*St Mary's at the Residency - [http://www.searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=197&s_id=152 Photos of the cemetery] on the FIBIS database*St. Peter's the Railwaymen's Church, Charbagh, Lucknow. Built as the railwaymen's church of the Protestant Anglican communities of Charbagh and Alambagh in Lucknow, and opened in 1915. Prior to that, the congregation assembled somewhere in the present day Loco Workshop. <ref>[http://coloniallucknow.blogspot.com/2016/04/st-peters-railwaymens-church-charbagh.html St. Peter's the Railwaymen's Church, Charbagh, Lucknow] by Nikhil Katyal April 3, 2016. "Colonial Lucknow"</ref>
'''Roman Catholic'''
*St Joseph's Cathedral
'''Church of Scotland'''
*[http://coloniallucknow.blogspot.com/2019/12/saint-mungos-church-of-scotland-lucknow.html Saint Mungo's Church of Scotland, Lucknow Cantonment] December 25, 2019. "Colonial Lucknow"
== Memorials ==
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/28742607@N02/sets/72157629547211574/with/7138398699/ Memorials of Colonial Lucknow] photographs by Vineet Wal on flickr.com
====FIBIS database====
==Cemeteries==
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=152 FIBIS database: Lucknow Cemeteries]*[http://coloniallucknow.blogspot.com/2013/09/ "Cemetery at Vilayati Bagh in Lucknow"] September 20, 2013. "Colonial Lucknow".
==Education==
[[Image:La Martiniere College.jpg|thumb|300px|La Martiniere College]]
*Jubilee High School
*Loreto Convent - Catholic school, founded 1872
*La Martiniere College - boys school established 1845, girls schools established 1869. [http://wwwfibis.search.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/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.searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/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://wwwfibis.searchourarchives.fibis.org/frontisonline/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.searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/searchsummary.php?mode=image&kw=lucknow Miscellaneous Lucknow photographs] Further Fibiwiki images may be browsed at [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Category:Lucknow_images Lucknow images] == Interactive Map ==<div style="float: right;">type="map" zoom="11" controls="small"> </googlemap> </div> The map to the right shows locations of interest in Lucknow. Hover your cursor over the markers on the map to reveal the places marked or use the below index. Clicking on the markers also produces a balloon with further location details. <big>'''Locations index'''</big> '''Siege of Lucknow battle sites''' [[File:Battlefield.png]] '''A''' -[[Battle of Alambagh (Lucknow) Sept 1857|La Martiniere]] [[File:Battlefield.png]] '''B''' - [[Actions at Dilkusha and Martiniere|Dilkusha Kothi]]
Further Fibiwiki images may be browsed at [[File:Battlefield.png]] '''C''' - [[Battle of Secundra Bagh (Category:Lucknow_images|Lucknow)|Secundra Baghimages]]
== External links ==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V16_194.gif Lucknow] Imperial Gazetteer of India
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Lucknow Siege of Lucknow] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucknow Lucknow] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Martiniere_Lucknow La Martiniere College, Lucknow] Wikipedia
*[http://beautifulindianchurches.blogspot.com/2012/07/all-saints-garrison-church-church-of.html Photos of All Saints Garrison Church] 9 July 2012 from "Beautiful Indian Churches". Earlier 2011 photos from the same website [http://beautifulindianchurches.blogspot.com/2011/10/all-saints-garrison-church-cni-lucknow.html here] and [http://beautifulindianchurches.blogspot.com/2011/12/more-pictures-of-all-saints-garrison.html here]
*[http://coloniallucknow.blogspot.com/2015/04/holy-redeemer-church-roman-catholic.html Holy Redeemer Church (Roman Catholic), Lucknow] April 4, 2015. "Colonial Lucknow".
*[http://www.margaretdeefholts.com/Lucknow.html History’s Ghosts in Old Lucknow] Story and photos by Margaret Deefholts www.margaretdeefholts.com
*[http://www.krrcassociation.com/index.php/association/20-swift-bold-stories/139-goddard-childhood-memories-of-india "Childhood Memories of India"] by John Goddard, KRRC . KRRC Association. The author was born in 1923 and lived most of the time until 1933 in India, in cantonments in Lucknow and Calcutta. His father was officers’ mess sergeant in a battalion of the [[60th Regiment of Foot|King’s Royal Rifle Corps (the 60th Rifles)]]
*[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2261676/Cliff-Richards-India-How-singers-career-actually-began-Calcutta.html Cliff's Calcutta: How Richard's singing career actually began in the British Raj] by Steve Turner 13 January 2013 dailymail.co.uk. The singer Cliff Richard was born in Lucknow in 1940. His mother had travelled from her home in [[Dehra Dun]], because Lucknow had a reputable hospital, ‘a popular hospital – very British as well’.This may have been the Lady Dufferin Hospital, then renowned for its modern maternity unit.
====Historical books online====
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V16_194.gif "Lucknow City"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 16'', page 188.
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/KC4XLZ6B4D4CMAVK554P5AWMMNLXHDRH ''Lucknow : a Gazetteer ; Volume 37 District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh''] by H R Nevill 1904 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206940/page/n3 Archive.org]
*[http://bhagirathi.iitr.ac.in/dspace/handle/123456789/745 ''District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh: Volume 37: Lucknow Division''] 1916 may be downloaded as a pdf from [http://bhagirathi.iitr.ac.in/dspace Bhagirathi - The Institute Repository of IIT Roorkee]. This volume is probably ''Supplementary Notes and Statistics''.
*[https://archive.org/stream/gri_000033125008608313#page/n3/mode/2up ''The Lucknow Album : containing a series of fifty photographic views of Lucknow and its environs together with a large sized plan of the city''] 1874 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/gri_000033125008608313#page/n87/mode/1up Photograph: Christ’s Church]
**[https://archive.org/stream/gri_000033125008608313#page/n177/mode/2up Map]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/touristsguideto00hiltgoog#page/n4/mode/2up ''The Tourist's Guide to Lucknow''] by Edward H Hilton 1894. Archive.org. Also includes background information about the Siege of Lucknow 1857.
*[https://archive.org/details/guidetolucknow00mabe/page/n7 ''The Guide to Lucknow with Historical Notes on Mutiny of 1857''] by M A Beg. Reprint of 6th edition 1911. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023977360 ''Lucknow (the capital of Oudh): an illustrated guide to places of interest, with history and map''] by Lieut.-Colonel H A Newell Fourth Edition c 1920s? (One earlier edition was published in 1916) Archive.org
** [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023977360#page/n84/mode/1up Map of Lucknow: Left hand side], [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023977360#page/n85/mode/1up Right hand side]
*[https://archive.org/details/historiclucknow0000hays/page/n5/mode/2up ''Historic Lucknow''] by Sidney Hay, Illustrated by Enver Ahmed. 1994 reprint edition, first published 1939. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.97230/page/n1049 "Lucknow"] digital page 1050 (page 53 of the Provincial Section/United Provinces section) ''Thacker's Indian Directory Including Burma 1940-41'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108461/page/n7 ''Observations on the Mussulmauns of India : descriptive of their manners, customs, habits and religious opinion made during a twelve years' residence in the immediate society''] by Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali. Edited with notes and an introduction by W. Crooke 1917. The authors background is unclear, other than that she was an English lady of high social rank, who married in England c 1816, and lived most of the time in Lucknow, see the [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108461/page/n11 Introduction]. Page ix. Originally published 1832. [https://archive.org/details/observationsonm02aligoog/page/n3 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/observationsonm01aligoog/page/n4 Volume II]. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/368/mode/2up Lucknow] page 368 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/mygardenincityg00cutgoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''My Garden in the City of Gardens: A Memory''] by Edith E Cuthell 1905 Archive.org. Memories of life as an Army Officer’s wife in Lucknow.
*[httphttps://www.archive.org/streamdetails/rajindianmutinyk0000pemb/touristsguideto00hiltgoog#page/n4/mode/2up n5 ''The Tourist's Guide to LucknowRaj, the Indian Mutiny and the Kingdom of Oudh, 1801-1859''] by Edward H Hilton 1894. John Pemble 1977 Archive.orgBooks to Borrow/Lending Library. Also includes background information about seige of Lucknow 1857. == References ==<references />
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