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Siege of Lucknow | 1857

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Annals of the House of Haliburton, 1858

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1383/1/18
Scope and Contents

Description of lands owned by Haliburton family, and of Dryburgh Abbey. Also includes an entry from 'Douglas's Peerage' on genealogy of family, and an account of death of Major Haliburton at siege of Lucknow.

Dates: 1858
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Ian R. Grant, antiquarian bookseller / Legal documents

Story about how news of the Battle of Omdurman and Second Battle of Cawnpore was disseminated, September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/108
Scope and Contents

Story about how news of the Battle of Omdurman and Second Battle of Cawnpore, India, was disseminated collected from Mr Urquhart of Faithir Mhor Gearrloch [Am Faithir Mòr/Firemore, Geàrr Loch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. He states that the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, was heard about in Cairo, Egypt 'before it was known by the telegraph fifteen miles away'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael