Deadly courtesies were constantly exchanged--sorties by the English in the night; rushes by the enemy in the night--rushes whose purpose was to breach the walls or scale them; rushes which cost heavily, and always failed.
The ladies got used to all the horrors of war--the shrieks of mutilated men, the sight of blood and death.

Lady Inglis makes this mention in her diary: "Mrs.Bruere's nurse was carried past our door to-day, wounded in the eye.

To extract the bullet it was found necessary to take out the eye--a fearful operation.

Her mistress held her while it was performed." The first relieving force failed to relieve.

It was under Havelock and Outram; and arrived when the siege had been going on for three months.
It fought its desperate way to Lucknow, then fought its way through the city against odds of a hundred to one, and entered the Residency; but there was not enough left of it, then, to do any good.