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)]
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)
- 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
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