The British were besieged during the Indian Mutiny (1857)

Usage examples of lucknow.

The doubtful condition of Lucknow, Benares, and Agra comes in the rear of all this to strike a frost into the heart, or would do so, again I say, if any other nation were concerned.

All depends upon the prosperity of our affairs at Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Cawnpore, and Allahabad.

The men from Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Aden, Peshawar and the far North saw fit to be more polite to the judge and his wife than the Moplahs might have been if left to themselves.

For three days and nights we moved steadily north-east, through Bhopal and Jhansi, across the Ganges to Lucknow, then turned east to come at last to Gorakhpur, the garrison town where long ago I had lain weeping in my hospital bed because I had lost my only friend in the world.

Baroda, Rawal-Pindi, Lucknow, Lahore, Cawnpore, Allahabad, Calcutta, Madras--oh, everywhere.

There is no city - except Bombay, the queen of all - more beautiful in her garish style than Lucknow, whether you see her from the bridge over the river, or from the top of the Imambara looking down on the gilt umbrellas of the Chutter Munzil, and the trees in which the town is bedded.

The story of Gordon I told him in full, and many episodes of the Indian Mutiny, Lucknow, the second battle of Cawn- pore, the relief of Arrah, the death of poor Spottis-woode, and Sir Hugh Rose's hotspur, midland campaign.