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Identifier: handbooktravelle00john Title: A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: John Murray (Firm) Subjects: India -- Guidebooks Burma -- Guidebooks Sri Lanka -- Guidebooks Publisher: London : J. Murray Calcutta : Thacker, Spink, & Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: LUCKNOW Intrenched Position of tkeBRITISH GARRISON Scale of Feet LoDdottJoKn Mtifta^. All}i>iu«irlr< So^fll ^-^ c ROUTE 21. SIEGE OF RESIDENCY 287 the position S. of the Redan and W. of the Banqueting Hall. With its lofty rooms, fine verandahs, and large porticoes, its range of subterraneous apartments, its ground floor and two upper storeys, it afforded accommodation to nearly 1000 persons—men, women, and children. The Baillie Guard situated on the lower ground below the hospital, was partly used as a store-room, partly as the treasury and office, and partly as barracks for the Sepoys, who garrisoned it under Lieutenant Aitken. In the southern angle of the guard was a concave shaped guard-house, removed after 1857. On the S. side of the road leading up through the Baillie Gate to the centre of the Residency was the house of Dr Fayrer, with a garrison commanded by Captain Weston and Dr Fayrer.The Post Office was a very important position, commanding the jail and mosque to the right, and the Cl
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