The Guide to Lucknow Containing Popular Places and Buildings Worthy of a Visit With Historical Notes on Mutiny of 1857

On the morning of the 20th of November the troops received orders to march for the Alumbagh and the Residency the scene of so long stirring a defence was abandoned for a while to the rebel army. [...] He was appointed Vizier or Minister of State to the Emperor in 1747 from which date the title of Subdar ceases and the Governor of Oudh is called the Nawab Vizier a combination of the titles of Nawab of Oudh and Vizior of the Empire. [...] Study of the 32nd in the arm and on 11 th of the same month six men of the same corps wore buried under a part of the north-east wing falling down by the struck of a gust of wind ; again on the 24th the entire length of the verandah along two stories on the west side fall burying seven men of the same corps. [...] Tbis important post which was the head-quarter of the Engineer and Artillery was defended by a party of the 32n Regiment under the command of Captain McCabe of the same corps who was killed on the 29th September. [...] The Begum Kothie previously the dwelling place of the daughter of the grand-daughter of Buksh Ally whose mother had been a Miss Walters was one of the largest buildings in the entrenchment and from its structure as well as its being centrally situated it afforded shelter from the enemy's fire and was occupied by the families of the officers.