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 duped into a false assurance of a safe passage to Allahabad by the rebel forces under Nana Sahib .

Kanpur (/kɑːnˈpʊər/ ⓘ), formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was the primary financial and commercial centre of Northern India. Founded in the year 1207 by a Rajput ruler Raja Kanh Deo, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations of British India ...

The besieged British in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) were unprepared for an extended siege and surrendered to rebel Indian forces under Nana Sahib, in return for a safe passage to Allahabad. However, under ambiguous circumstances, their evacuation from Cawnpore turned into a massacre, and most of them were killed.

“Remember Cawnpore” immediately became the battle cry of the British troops, and the very word “Cawnpore” was used to justify an appallingly brutal retribution against Indian nationals.

2018年9月10日 · A contemporary engraving of the massacre at the Satichaura Ghat on 27 June 1857 following the Siege of Cawnpore during the 1857 Indian rebellion. The horrific massacre of European men, women, and children during the Indian Mutiny represented the worst aspects of warfare and provoked fierce reprisals.

What happened at Cawnpore? In 1857, several massacres took place at Cawnpore (Kanpur), a city in northern India, 48 miles from Lucknow. British and Indian soldiers were responsible for the torture and killing of soldiers and civilians.

Kanpur - or, as the Victorians invariably called it, Cawnpore. There were three interrelated phases of killing. The outnumbered and ill-equipped garrison of about a thousand Europeans (half were women or children), besieged at Cawnpore in June 1857, surrendered on the promise of a safe passage and boats to take the survivors to Allahabad.'

2013年1月19日 · At last, on the night of June 4th, the sepoy regiments at Cawnpore broke out in mutiny. They were driven to action by the same mad terror which had been manifested elsewhere. They cared nothing for the Mogul, nothing for the pageant King at Delhi; but they had been panic-stricken by extravagant stories of coming destruction.

2024年12月27日 · Kanpur, city, southwest-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies in the Lower Ganges-Yamuna Doab, on the Ganges (Ganga) River about 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Lucknow. It was the site of a British military cantonment and was a focal point early in …

2018年5月18日 · Cawnpore was the scene of a bitter struggle during the Indian mutiny and became a symbol of the violence of that conflict. Its British garrison, besieged for nineteen days, was obliged to surrender to Nana Sahib who, on hearing of the approach of Sir Henry Havelock's relieving army, ordered all prisoners to be killed.