d men in hospital crawled out to
join in the chorus of welcome. Then followed personal greetings as
officers and men came pouring in. Hands were frantically shaken on all
sides. Rough-bearded soldiers took the children from their mothers'
arms, kissed them with tears rolling down their cheeks, and thanked God
that they had come in time to save them from the fate of the sufferers
at Cawnpore.

Thus after a siege of nearly four months Havelock succeeded in relieving
Lucknow. But it was a reenforcement rather than a relief, and was
confined to the British residency. The siege was not raised; and the
city of Lucknow remained two months longer in the hands of the rebels.
Sir James Outram assumed the command, but was compelled to keep on the
defensive. Meanwhile reinforcements were arriving from England. In
November Sir Colin Campbell reached Cawnpore at the head of a
considerable army. He left General Windham with two thousand men to take
charge of the intrenchment at Cawnpore, and then advanced against
Lucknow with five thousand men and thirty guns. He carried several of
the enemy's positions, cut his way to the residency, and at last brought
away the beleaguered garrison, with all the women and children. But not
even then could he disperse the rebels and reoccupy the city.
Accordingly he left Outram at the head of four thousand men in the
neighborhood of Lucknow, and then returned to Cawnpore.

On November 24th, the day after leaving Lucknow, General Havelock was
carried off by dysentery, and buried in the Alumbagh. His death spread a
gloom over India, but by this time his name had become a household word
wherever the English language was spoken. In the hour of surprise and
panic, as successive stories of mutiny and rebellion reached England,
and culminated in the revolt at Delhi and massacre at Cawnpore, the
victories of Havelock revived the drooping spirits of the British
nation, and stirred up all hearts to glorify the hero who had stemmed
the tide of disaffection and disaster. The death of Havelock, following
the story of the capture of Delhi, and told with the same breath that
proclaimed the deliverance at Lucknow, was received in England with a
universal sorrow that will never be forgotten so long as men are living
who can recall the memory of the "Mutiny of Fifty-seven."

The subsequent history of the sepoy revolt is little more than a detail
of the military operations of British troops for the dispersion of the