The Indian Mutiny 1857-1859 Aftermath of the Siege of Cawnpore, showing the remains of the British entrenchment de fences to barracks at Cawnpore which General Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler surrendered in June 1857. Cawnpore was the British military headquarters for the District of Oudh. The massacre of British women and children which took place there was one of the worst atrocities of the Mutiny.

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