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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 545

Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Defence of Lucknow (P. Finnigan, 32nd. L.I.), minor edge bruise, good very fine Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 3593 Private Patrick Finnigan, served with the 32nd Foot during the Indian Mutiny, and was killed in action at the disastrous Battle of Chinhut, 30.6.1857. Casualties for the Battle, when Sir Henry Lawrence, on hearing of the fall of Cawnpore, led his men out of Lucknow to meet the much larger rebel army, were 118 Europeans and 182 loyal Indian soldiers killed or missing. As a result of having his force so severely weaken, Lawrence ordered the entire Lucknow force to retire to the Residency. Mortally wounded two days later during the Defence of the Residency, his last words were ´´to ask the poor fellows who I exposed at Chinhut to forgive me. Bid them remember Cawnpore and never surrender.´´

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