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Misleading quote from Irish/British reporter Russell
editI have deleted the sentence which claimed that "Russell, the reporter for The New York Times who accompanied the victorious British army that entered Lucknow in 1858, after India's First War of Independence, called the stretch of road from Rumi Darwaza to Chattar Manzil the most beautiful and spectacular cityscape that he had ever seen, better than Rome, Paris, London and Constantinople" because the original quote refers to Lucknow the city in general, and not to Rumi Darwaza or even the "stretch of road from Rumi Darwaza to Chattar Manzil".
(The "Russell" in question is clearly William Howard Russell, the Irish-born correspondent for The Times (of London, not New York); the description of Lucknow can be found in Chapter XVI of his 1860 book My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9: "Not Rome, not Athens, not Constantinople, not any city I have ever seen, appears to me so striking and beautiful as this".)
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