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The well at Cawnpore(Kanpur), 1860

The well at Cawnpore at Lucknow, India, pictured as it was in 1860. The dried up well was used to dispose of the bodies of British women and children massacred by Nana Sahib's forces during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, in what became known as the Bibighar massacre

Picture No
10823398
Media ID
46138062
Size
5578px x 4379px (3.5MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed engraving from in The Illustrated London News, 31st October 1874, page 421
Date
1860

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