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==== Historical books on-line ====
==== Historical books online ====
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TpleAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1  ''The Story of Cawnpore''] by Capt Mowbray Thomson 1859 (Google Books)
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TpleAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1  ''The Story of Cawnpore''] by Capt Mowbray Thomson 1859 (Google Books)
**[https://archive.org/stream/indianhomememori00cottuoft#page/138/mode/2up Mowbray Thomson] page 138 ''Indian & Home Memories'' by Sir Henry Cotton 1910. Archive.org. Includes a photograph of Mowbray Thomson.
**[https://archive.org/stream/indianhomememori00cottuoft#page/138/mode/2up Mowbray Thomson] page 138 ''Indian & Home Memories'' by Sir Henry Cotton 1910. Archive.org. Includes a photograph of Mowbray Thomson.
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*'' 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
*'' 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
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.33549 ''A Personal Narrative Of The Outbreak And Massacre At Cawnpore During The Sepoy Revolt Of 1857''] by W J. Shepherd  "2nd edition revised and corrected" 1879  Archive.org,  Digital Library of India Collection. It is catalogued as ''Outbreak And Massacre Ed. 2''
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.33549 ''A Personal Narrative Of The Outbreak And Massacre At Cawnpore During The Sepoy Revolt Of 1857''] by W J. Shepherd  "2nd edition revised and corrected" 1879  Archive.org,  Digital Library of India Collection. It is catalogued as ''Outbreak And Massacre Ed. 2''
* ''The Indian Mutiny. Events at Cawnpore, June 1857'' by J Lee , late of HM’s 53rd Regt. Cawnpore 1884. [http://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990057179980203941 Catalogue entry] Harvard Digital Library. To read online, click on "Open in Mirador".
:[https://archive.org/details/b28710678/mode/2up ''The Indian Mutiny : and in particular a narrative of events at Cawnpore, June and July, 1857''] by J Lee,  catalogued 1893 Archive.org. Probably contains most (or all ?) of the earlier publication.


== Recommended Reading ==
== Recommended Reading ==

Revision as of 06:30, 12 June 2020

This article is part of the events in the Indian Mutiny

Related articles

7 June 1857 Start of the Siege of Cawnpore
27 June 1857 Massacre at Satichaura Ghat
16 July 1857 Massacre at Bibigarh
17 July 1857 Recapture of Cawnpore
19 November-6 December 1857 Second Siege of Cawnpore

Biographies

Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906:
John Adye (1819-1900)
Henry Havelock (1795-1857)
Nana Sahib (1820?-1859?)
Tantya Tope (1819-59)
Maj-Gen Sir Hugh Wheeler (1789-1857)]

FIBIS resources

  • "The Walsh Family and the Cawnpore Massacre" by Paddy Walsh FIBIS Journal Number 31 (Spring 2014) pages 3-15. For access, see FIBIS Journals.

External Links

Indian Mutiny 1857-58 www.britishempire.co.uk
Siege of Cawnpore Wikipedia
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Wikipedia
Kanpur Memorial Church Wikipedia

Historical books online

The Indian Mutiny : and in particular a narrative of events at Cawnpore, June and July, 1857 by J Lee, catalogued 1893 Archive.org. Probably contains most (or all ?) of the earlier publication.

Recommended Reading

Saul David, Indian Mutiny: 1857 (London: Viking, 2002), ISBN 0670911372 ; (Penguin, 2003), ISBN 0141005548

Andrew Ward, Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (McArthur & Co, 1996), ISBN 0719564107