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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539669" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Capture of Lucknow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas near the Begum Kothie the battle began,<br>Where innocent blood as plentiful as water ran;<br>The Begum Kothie was a place of honour given to the 93rd,<br>Which heroically to a man they soon did begird. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the 4th Punjaub Rifles were their companions in glory,<br>And are worthy of their names enrolled in story,<br>Because they performed prodigious wonders in the fight,<br>By killing and scattering the Sepoys left and right. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The 93rd Highlanders bivouacked in a garden surrounded by mud walls,<br>Determined to capture the Begum Kothie no matter what befalls--,<br>A place strongly fortified and of enormous strength,<br>And protected by strong earthworks of very great length. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And added to these obstacles was the most formidable of all--<br>A broad deep ditch that ran along the wall,<br>Which the storming party not even guessed at before;<br>But this barrier the British soon did climb o'er. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But early the next morning two batteries of Artillery were pounding away,<br>And the fight went on for the whole day;<br>And the defenders of the building kept up rattling musketry fire,<br>And when night fell the British had to retire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next day the contest was renewed with better success,<br>And the 93rd in all their beauty forward did press,<br>And moved on toward the position without firing a shot,<br>And under cover of some ruined buildings they instantly got. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here for a few minutes they kept themselves under cover,<br>While each man felt more anxious than another<br>To attack the merciless rebels while it was day,<br>Because their blood was up and eager for the fray. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still the enemy kept up a blazing fire at them pell-mell,<br>But they fired too high and not a man of them fell;<br>And the bullets whistled around them again and again,<br>Still on went the unwavering Highlanders with might and main. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when they reached the ditch they were taken by surprise,<br>By the unexpected obstacle right before their eyes;<br>But Captain Middleton leapt into the ditch and showed them the way,<br>And immediately the whole of the men were after him without delay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leith Hay himself was among the first across,<br>And gained a footing on the other side without any personal loss;<br>And he assisted in helping the rest out of the ditch,<br>While the din of war was at the highest pitch. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas then the struggle commenced in terrible earnest:<br>While every man was resolved to do his best;<br>And the enemy barricaded every entrance so as a single man could only pass,<br>Determined to make a strong resistance, and the British to harass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But barrier after barrier soon was passed;<br>And the brave men no doubt felt a little harassed,<br>But they fought desperately and overturned their foes at every point,<br>And put the rebels to flight by shot and bayonet conjoint. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Sheiks and the Horse Guards behaved right well--<br>Because beneath their swords, by the score, the Sepoys fell;<br>And their beautiful war steeds did loudly neigh and roar,<br>While beneath their hoofs they trampled them all o'er. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as for John McLeod-- the pipe-major of the 93rd,<br>He kept sounding his bagpipes and couldn't be stirred--<br>Because he remembered his duty in the turmoil,<br>And in the battlefield he was never known to recoil. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as for Major General McBain-- he was the hero in the fight;<br>He fought heroically-- like a lion-- with all his might;<br>And again and again he was met by desperate odds,<br>But he scattered them around him and made them kiss the sods. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he killed eleven of the enemy with sword in hand,<br>Which secured for him the proudest of all honours in the land,<br>Namely, that coveted honour called the Victoria Cross,<br>Of which many a deserving hero has known the loss. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as for brave Hodson-- he was a warrior born,<br>And military uniform did his body adorn;<br>And his voice could be heard in the battle afar,<br>Crying-- &quot;Come on my boys there is nothing like war!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, in a moment, a volley was discharged at him,<br>And he fell mortally wounded, while the Sepoys did grin;<br>Then the Highlanders closed with their foes and made them retreat,<br>And left them not till every rebel lay dead at their feet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Sir Colin Campbell to his men did say,--<br>&quot;Men, I feel proud that we have captured Lucknow this day;<br>Therefore strike up the bagpipes and give one hearty cheer,<br>And enjoy yourselves, my heroes, while ye are here.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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