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THE MASSACRE GHAT, AND THE MEMORIAL WELL CAWNPORE. Our first illustration shows us the spot where, in the month off June. 1857, more than three hundred men, womenn and children, who had taken refuge in Cawnpore, were cruelly and treacherously murdered by the orders of Nana Sahib,

upon whose pledges in the stress of their misfortunes they had been compelled to rely.---------Our second picture shows us the Monument erected at Cawnpore, in 1863, in memory of those who perished in the siege and massacre, and specially of those women and children who, to the number of two hundred, were: murdered by the Nana, and whose bodies were thrust into a well on the spot where the monument now stands.
Date between 1887 and 1889
date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1889-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source The Queen's Empire. Volume 4. Cassell & Co. London
Author Various photographers for Cassell & Co.
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