Events at Cawnpore

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
Maj Gen Sir Hugh Wheeler ODNB

Historical books on-line

• The Story of Cawnpore by Capt Mowbray Thomson 1859 (Google Books)
  • Mowbray Thomson page 138 Indian & Home Memories by Sir Henry Cotton 1910. Archive.org. Includes a photograph of Mowbray Thomson.
• Cawnpore By Sir George Otto Trevelyan 1866 (Google Books)
• "The Story of My Escape from Futtehghur" by Gavin S Jones, pages 88-108 The Cornhill Magazine 1865 Google Books. This account was subsequently published in 1913 as The Story of my Escape from Fatehgarh, stated to have been originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1859. The 1913 edition is available at the British Library.
  
• 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
• 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

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