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Our Bones Lie Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857
; OUR BONES LIE SCATTERED: THE CAWNPORE MASSACRES AND THE INDIAN MUTINY OF...valleys of the Ganges and Jumna. Cawnpore was but one of many garrisons strung...Bengal were being overwhelmed. At Cawnpore the garrison was commanded by the...
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Obituary: Zoe Yalland
; ...Wilkinson, teacher and historian: born Cawnpore, India, 14 October 1922; married 1944...the kind of history she wrote. Born in Cawnpore, India, the third and penultimate generation...to write the history of the British in Cawnpore in two meticulously researched and beautifully...
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BOOKS: Not all heat and dust
; ...renaissance of Paul Scott and E M Forin Cawnpore (now Kanpur). Her stories shine like...evoked. The Britons who began and ran the Cawnpore cotton and woollen mills emerge through...relieved him of his command included one of Cawnpore's leading businessmen, Sir Thomas Wilson...
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Books: Mutineers without bounty
; ...the Black Hole of Calcutta (1757), Cawnpore (1857) and Chillianwallah (1919) - it...book, Andrew Ward retells the story of Cawnpore: how after a siege of the entrenched...force defeated his army and closed in on Cawnpore, Nana had 200 British women and children...
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LAST NIGHT
; "The Cawnpore Massacres" was the sort of programme...the reasons that so many people died in Cawnpore, both in the siege and the massacre that...and children taken prisoner after the Cawnpore massacre. Their grave became the site...
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Bounty from a mutiny
; ...century, a Catholic priest in the city of Cawnpore in the north of British India was called...virgin daughter of the commander of the Cawnpore garrison, General Hugh Massy Wheeler...down with Khan in the Indian quarter of Cawnpore, refusing to contact her surviving family...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Before Windmill Road changed name.(News)
; THESE photos of the old Windmill Road School were sent in with a plea by Tony Brindley. Tony, of Cawnpore Road, would like to hear from anyone who can help him with more pictures of the old school, which changed its name to Longford...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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They wanted their own share; Britain and India.('The Indian Mutiny: 1857')
; ...busters in custody THE British Raj boasted one tourist site that drew even more visitors than the Taj Mahal. The memorial well at Cawnpore, nine feet wide by 50 deep, greatly appealed to the Victorians' sense of horror and fascination. For down it, on the morning...
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 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Echo was therefor their big day.(News)
; ...their wedding day bride and groom Kelly and Adam Bagwell could not resist reading their favourite newspaper. Joanne Bagwell, of Cawnpore Street, Penarth, sent in this picture of the couple from Cardiff, who married in Santorini, Greece, with their family, friends...
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CONGRATULATIONS; THE GOOD NEWS COLUMN FOR YOU, AND BY YOU...THE READERS.(Features)
; STEVE and CAROL FINN, of Cawnpore Road, Whitmore Park, Coventry, celebrated their silver wedding anniversary on October 18. The couple werechildhood sweethearts...
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