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| Picture No | 10823398 |
| Date | 1860 |
| Description | The well at Cawnpore(Kanpur), 1860 |
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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.
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| Source | Unattributed engraving from in The Illustrated London News, 31st October 1874, page 421. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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