Spring 1855, the height of the Crimean War, and the siege of the Russian city of Sebastopol continues. In a desperate attempt to cut the Russians' supply line at the Sea of Azoff, the Allies commit 15
General Havelock's Moveable Column?a force of barely a thousand men--has fought its way through to the heroic garrison defending the Residency in Lucknow. They must hold firm until the relieving force
Cawnpore is retaken, but they have come too late to stop the slaughter?the relieving British soldiers can only stare at the ill-sited, poorly-defended entrenchment and shake their heads, wondering why
The sepoys, native soldiers serving in the British army, are massing in response to a prophecy predicting the end of the reign of the British East India Company. Alexander Sheridan?in command of a scr