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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#Bibighar_massacre Bibigarh Massacre"]  ''Wikipedia''<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh] ''Wikipedia''<br>[http://snuffy.lib.umn.edu/image/srch/bin/Dispatcher?mode=600&id=amp00489 Scene of the Massacre] ''Ames Library''
 
[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#Bibighar_massacre Bibigarh Massacre"]  ''Wikipedia''<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh] ''Wikipedia''<br>[http://snuffy.lib.umn.edu/image/srch/bin/Dispatcher?mode=600&id=amp00489 Scene of the Massacre] ''Ames Library''
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== Recommended Reading ==
 
== Recommended Reading ==
 
Saul David, ''Indian Mutiny: 1857'' (London: Viking, 2002), ISBN 0670911372 ; (Penguin, 2002), ISBN 0141005548<br>
 
Saul David, ''Indian Mutiny: 1857'' (London: Viking, 2002), ISBN 0670911372 ; (Penguin, 2002), ISBN 0141005548<br>
 
W H Russell, ''My Indian Mutiny Diary'' (Periodicals Service Co, 1967), ISBN 0527781207<br>
 
W H Russell, ''My Indian Mutiny Diary'' (Periodicals Service Co, 1967), ISBN 0527781207<br>
 
Andrew Ward, ''Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857'' (McArthur & Co, 1996), ISBN 0719564107
 
Andrew Ward, ''Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857'' (McArthur & Co, 1996), ISBN 0719564107
[[Image:1858 Kanpur well monument.jpg|thumb|right|350px|"The Well and Monument, Slaughter House, Cawnpore" Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, taken in 1858. From 'Murray Collection: Views in Delhi, Cawnpore, Allahabad and Benares' taken by Dr. John Murray. Picture shows the Bibigurh house in which European women and children were killed and the well where their bodies were found.]]
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[[Category:Battles|Cawnpore (Bibigarh)]]
 
[[Category:Battles|Cawnpore (Bibigarh)]]
 
[[Category:Indian Mutiny|Cawnpore (Bibigarh)]]
 
[[Category:Indian Mutiny|Cawnpore (Bibigarh)]]

Revision as of 19:27, 31 May 2009

Cawnpore (Bibigarh)
Part of Indian Mutiny
Date: 15 July 1857
Location: Cawnpore Uttar Pradesh
Presidency: Bengal
Co-ordinates: 26.470876°N 80.371896°E
Result: British murdered
Combatants
Rebel Sepoys
Commanders
Tatya Tope
Azimullah Khan
Strength
Casualties

External Links

"Indian Mutiny 1857-58" The British Empire.
Bibigarh Massacre" Wikipedia
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Wikipedia
Scene of the Massacre Ames Library

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