Cawnpore

This definitive book gives a vivid and emotional account of one of main locations of the Revolt of 1857. In writing this book, the author has consulted even the most trivial account in recreating the sequence of events that caused the greatest outrage among the British during, and for many long years, after the mutiny. Native sources of the events are also referred to, to get an accurate description of events, The book is divided into 5 parts the station; the outbreak; the siege; the treachery; and, the massacre, There is a map, and 2 coloured illustrations in the book, which is a reprint of the 1865 edition