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A Diary Kept by Mrs. R. C. Germon, at Lucknow, Between the Months of May and December, 1857

Chapter 5: FOOTNOTES.
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A day-by-day journal kept by a woman confined in Lucknow during the siege, combining domestic detail and personal anxiety with firsthand accounts of military activity, hospital care, bombardment, and civilian casualties. Entries record preparations, the arrival and movement of troops, and the routines that sustained residents under threat, while appended materials — a preface, letters, a plan of the defenses, and casualty lists — provide additional factual context and a practical record of life during the prolonged investment.

FOOTNOTES.


[1] This regiment afterwards mutinied to a man.

[2] The Cawnpore troops were expected to rise, and then we had but little chance of remaining quiet ourselves.

[3] These all turned against us afterwards.

[4] Not true.

[5] The Nana.

[6] This was a ruse to deceive the enemy and keep them off a little longer—which we were not told at the time.

[7] This must have been the firing into the boats instead. Poor creatures! we little thought it was the horrid massacre going on.

[8] Miss Palmer had her leg taken off by a round shot in the Residency this day, and only survived it twenty-four hours.

[9] Now Lord Napier of Magdala.

[10] These mines were prepared by us to throw down several walls, to assist our troops in getting in.

[11] While I was talking to an officer, a bullet passed between our faces.

[12] Two miles out.