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== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm "Indian Mutiny 1857-58"] ''The British Empire''.<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Cawnpore "Siege of Cawnpore"] ''Wikipedia''<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh] ''Wikipedia'' | [http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm "Indian Mutiny 1857-58"] ''The British Empire''.<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Cawnpore "Siege of Cawnpore"] ''Wikipedia''<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh] ''Wikipedia'' | ||
| + | ==== Historical books on-line ==== | ||
| + | '' List of inscriptions on Christian tombs and tablets of historical interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh'' by E A H Blunt ICS 1911 [http://www.archive.org/stream/listofinscriptio00blunuoft#page/106/mode/2up Description of the uprising and names on monuments of European victims] archive.org | ||
Revision as of 11:38, 19 June 2010
| Siege of Cawnpore June 1857 | ||
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| Part of Indian Mutiny | ||
| Date: | 5-27 June 1857 | |
| Location: | Cawnpore Uttar Pradesh | |
| Presidency: | Bengal | |
| Co-ordinates: | 26.470876°N 80.371896°E | |
| Result: | Siege | |
| Combatants | ||
| East India Company | Rebel Sepoys | |
| Commanders | ||
| Maj Gen Sir Hugh Wheeler | Nana Sahib Tatya Tope | |
| Strength | ||
| Casualties | ||
External Links
"Indian Mutiny 1857-58" The British Empire.
"Siege of Cawnpore" Wikipedia
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Wikipedia
Historical books on-line
List of inscriptions on Christian tombs and tablets of historical interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh by E A H Blunt ICS 1911 Description of the uprising and names on monuments of European victims archive.org
Recommended Reading
Saul David, Indian Mutiny: 1857 (London: Viking, 2002), ISBN 0670911372 ; (Penguin, 2002), ISBN 0141005548
W H Russell, My Indian Mutiny Diary (Periodicals Service Co, 1967), ISBN 0527781207
Andrew Ward, Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (McArthur & Co, 1996), ISBN 0719564107
