Siege of Lucknow, India mb-code 42-18147360 Observer of a kite-balloon testing

Observer of a kite-balloon testing the telephone before ascending

September 6

Earl of Warwick (1428-1471)

George Heslop

Siege of Lucknow, India mb-code 42-18147360 Observer of a kite-balloon testingSiege of Lucknow, India, 1857, (1893). In 1857, Lucknow, the capital of the state of Oudh, was the scene of a historic defence by the British during the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Mutiny First War of Indian Independence) against British rule. The Siege of Lucknow was one of the key episodes in the unsuccessful rebellion. An engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time,