File:P17. The Clock Tower Gateway.jpg
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English: Plate 17. The Clock Tower Gateway. This building was right in front of the Baillie Guard gateway, about one hundred and fifty yards distant. There was formerly a sham clock above the archway, placed there in the time of the King of Oude, for what purpose it is difficult to conjecture.
The ruinous condition of the arch was occasioned by our round shot, which were poured into it to drive out the enemy, who had dug a traverse across the archway and formed a very strong post in the rear. It was behind the
right pillar that they brought the thirty-two pounder to play into Sanders’s position, to silence which the heavy gun alluded to in the “Baillie Guard ” sketch was placed in that position, and worked by Lieutenant Aitken and his Sepoys.
The enemy’s riflemen and sharpshooters, stationed in the upper story, caused much annoyance to several of our posts, and the Clock-tower and its vicinity were therefore very heavily visited by our guns. The ruin on the right was formerly an extremely handsome mosque, an edifice of much greater pretensions, both as regards size and architectural beauty, than the Clock-tower itself. It was, however, completely battered to pieces, and is now as complete a heap of ruins as any building inside our own defences. |
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Ames Library of South Asia - University of Minnesota (Minneapolis campus) |
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Jonathan Needham
creator QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q117756573 |
Object location | 26° 51′ 35.71″ N, 80° 55′ 40.64″ E ![]() | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | ![]() |
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Camera location | 26° 51′ 36.28″ N, 80° 55′ 40.25″ E ![]() | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | ![]() |
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