"About 4 P.M., two strange officers walked through our yard, leading their horses"-- and by that sign she knew that communication was established between the forces, that the relief was real, this time, and that the long siege of Lucknow was ended.
The last eight or ten miles of Sir Colin Campbell's march was through seas of, blood.

The weapon mainly used was the bayonet, the fighting was desperate.

The way was mile-stoned with detached strong buildings of stone, fortified, and heavily garrisoned, and these had to be taken by assault.

Neither side asked for quarter, and neither gave it.

At the Secundrabagh, where nearly two thousand of the enemy occupied a great stone house in a garden, the work of slaughter was continued until every man was killed.