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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh] Wikipedia<br> | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur_Memorial_Church Kanpur Memorial Church] Wikipedia<br> | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur_Memorial_Church Kanpur Memorial Church] Wikipedia<br> | ||
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*[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. | ||
| + | *[https://archive.org/details/ourbonesarescatt00ward ''Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857''] by Andrew Ward 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. | ||
== Recommended Reading == | == Recommended Reading == | ||
Saul David, ''Indian Mutiny: 1857'' (London: Viking, 2002), ISBN 0670911372 ; (Penguin, 2003), ISBN 0141005548 | 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 | + | Andrew Ward, ''Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857'' (McArthur & Co, 1996), ISBN 0719564107. Available online, see above. |
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Latest revision as of 06:40, 12 June 2020
This article is part of the events in the Indian Mutiny
Contents
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 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 an expanded version (77 pages) in 1886 (and later) as The Story of my Escape from Fatehgarh. There are indications it may have been originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1859, however nothing could be located in the 1859 editions. 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
- The Indian Mutiny. Events at Cawnpore, June 1857 by J Lee , late of HM’s 53rd Regt. Cawnpore 1884. Catalogue entry Harvard Digital Library. To read online, click on "Open in Mirador".
- 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.
- Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857 by Andrew Ward 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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. Available online, see above.
