Monument over the Well at Cawnpore, India - Massacre of 1857
Monument designed by Carlo Marochetti and erected at Kanpur (Cawnpore) at the Site of the Bibighar Well, where British women and children (survivors of the Siege of Cawnpore) were brutally killed. The dried up well was used to dispose of the bodies by Nana Sahib's forces during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, in what became known as the Bibighar massacre
Picture No
13046848
Media ID
45763711
Size
2997px x 4987px
(1.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph
Date
circa 1920s
