Gateway leading into the Residency, Lucknow, 1858 (b/w photo)

Gateway leading into the Residency, Lucknow, 1858. Photograph by Felice Beato, Indian Mutiny (1857-1859), 1858. In the album the picture has a handwritten caption, ‘Gateway leading into the Residency held by Capt Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitkin 13th NI commonly called the Baillie Guards Gate’, ‘Lucknow 1858’. The epic siege and relief of the Lucknow Residency was one of the most famous incidents of the Indian Mutiny. The mutineers began attacking the Residency compound on 4 July 1857. The Bailee Guard Gate was the main entrance to the Lucknow Residency compound. It was named after Major John Baillie, who was the British Resident in Oudh from 1811-1815.