CHAPTER XIII
SIR COLIN CAMPBELL AT LUCKNOW

AT Calcutta, on August 17, General Sir Colin
Campbell assumed the duties of Commander-
in-Chief in India.

The son of McLiver, a working carpenter in Glasgow,
Colin, born Oct. 20,1792, was received when an infant by
his mother's maiden sisters,and educated at their expense
at the Glasgow High School, and afterwards at Gosport.
When he was fifteen, his mother's brother. Colonel Camp¬
bell, obtained a commission for him. Being accidentally
gazetted as " Colin Campbell," he was so known till
1858, when he became Lord Clyde. He fought at
Vimiera, Corunna, Barrosa, Vittoria, and on the Bidassoa,
and had been three times severely wounded when at
the age of twenty-one he was promoted to be captain
in 1813. Napier, in his history, describing the disas¬
trous assault on St. Sebastian, wrote of the future peer :
" It was in vain that Lieutenant Campbell, breaking
through the tumultuous crowd with the survivors of
his chosen detachment, mounted the ruins; twice he
ascended, twice he was wounded, and all around him
died." He was sixty-five years of age when he left
England for the East on twenty-four hours' notice; but
he was active, energetic, and possessed of a personal
courage that could not be shaken.

When the Commander-in-Chief landed the outlook