ne Regiments at the storming of
Kotah: but the Mutiny was practically crushed, and only the Lucknow
force remained as a serious organised body of the enemy to be dealt
with.

While the dying embers of the Mutiny were elsewhere, as already
referred to, being stamped out by daily increasing forces, and with
increasing determination and success, Outram still held at bay the
50,000 men who faced him at Alumbagh. That they did not do more than
they did is proof positive that they knew already that the game was
up, and that the rebellion had collapsed. Outram’s communications with
his chief at Cawnpore were never, as heretofore, seriously endangered.
Brigadier Franks had given one or two outside bands a lesson at Chanda
which was effective, before he joined the army headquarters before
Lucknow.

Sir Colin Campbell had marched from Cawnpore on the 28th February 1858,
and out of his army of 30,000 men nearly 20,000 were Europeans, with
100 guns, and this without Franks’ contingent, and the handy force of
Ghoorkas under Jung Bahadoor. England had played her usual careless
game. Surprised at first, the innate courage of her fighting men had
pulled her through her political and military difficulty. When the
national spirit was aroused, real armies were created, and the end was
certain.

In the final attack on the city, nothing is more curious than to note
the strong feeling of military camaraderie between the Sikhs and the
Highlanders. It is not enough to say that they showed a gallant feeling
of emulation. They fraternised. Both regiments advanced equally,
“stalking on in grim silence,” and without firing, till the bayonet
came into use. The Highlanders stormed a building at the Secunderabagh
by tearing the tiles off the roof, at Sir Colin’s own suggestion, and
dropping into the building that way.

So, stage by stage, Lucknow was taken. The rebels were utterly routed,
and never seriously afterwards did the rebellion raise head again. But
many valuable lives had been lost in doing their duty; and among them
was Ma