A Beautiful Full leather Bound, 'Cawnpore' by George Otto Trevelyan Published by Macmillan and Co., 1899

1899 reprint, fourth edition, Macmillan and Co. (London), 5 x 7 1/4 inches tall, green full leather bound, gilt crest to front cover, five raised bands and gilt-lettered red leather label to spine, blue marbled page edges with matching blue marbled endpapers, 280 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. the binding is quite solid.1902 presentation bookplate to front pastedown from Cheltenham College, a private prep school in Gloucestershire, England. A very good to fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. An account of the siege, mutiny, and massacre of British men, women and children at Cawnpore (now Kanpur) during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, taken from 63 depositions of witnesses, a narrative by local lawyer Nanukchund, Captain Thomson's Story, and local government records.

The siege of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian rebellion of 1857. The besieged East India Company forces and civilians in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) were unprepared for an extended siege and surrendered to rebel forces under Nana Sahib in return for a safe passage to Allahabad. However, their evacuation from Cawnpore turned into a massacre, and most of the men were killed. As an East India Company rescue force from Allahabad approached Cawnpore, 120 British women and children captured by the Sepoy forces were killed in what came to be known as the Bibighar Massacre, their remains being thrown down a nearby well in an attempt to hide the evidence. Following the recapture of Cawnpore and the discovery of the massacre, the angry Company forces engaged in widespread retaliation against captured rebel soldiers and local civilians. The murders greatly embittered the British rank-and-file against the Sepoy rebels and inspired the war cry "Remember Cawnpore!".

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