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PREFACE.


The Tourist's Guide to Lucknow has been thoroughly revised and enlarged for the present edition. Some slight inaccuracies. which appeared in the former editions have been corrected, and the whole work has been brought up to date. The Maps of the City and Cantonments have been made as accurate and reliable as possible.

I am greatly indebted to the Rev Thomas Moore, formerly Civil Chaplain of Lucknow, (Retired for generously permitting me to make use of his works. These have been of especial value to me in compiling the Guide to the Residency and plan of the Intrenched Position.

I have also to acknowledge my indebtedness to the authors of the volumes indicated in the subjoined list:—

General Sleeman's Tour through Oudh.

Mutinies in Oudh, by Gubbins.

Siege of Lucknow, by Rees.

Diary of the Siege of Lucknow, by Lady Inglis.

Russell's Diary.

Chambers' Indian Mutiny.

The Oudh Gazetteer.

History of the Indian Mutiny, by Colonel Malleson, C. S. I.

Life of Havelock, by Marshman.

Sir Henry Lawrence, the Pacificator, by Lieutenant-

General McLeod Innes.

Great Battles of the British Army.

Medals of the British Army.

EDWARD H. HILTON.

Lucknow, 1899.