They had sailed with Sir John Franklin to the North Pole, and ridden with Havelock to the Relief of lucknow, and when they were not lighthouses firmly based on rock for the guidance of their generation, they were steady, serviceable candles, illuminating the ordinary chambers of daily life.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Whittier's poem, "The Pipes at lucknow," and Robert T. S. Lowell's "The Relief of lucknow," are descriptive of this same incident.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
1. Cawnpore, also a city of India, near lucknow, which was besieged during the mutiny.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey