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- The first volume of "La Maison à vapeur is published under the title "The Demon of Cawnpore".
- Kipling mentions Cawnpore in "The Jungle
Book", in the chapter "Toomai of the Elephants" :
"Umph!" said Big Toomai. "Thou art a
boy and as wild as a buffalo-calf. This running up and down among the
hills is not the best Government service. I am getting old, and I do
not love wild elephants. Give me brick elephant-lines, one stall to
each elephant, and big stumps to tie them to safely, and flat, broad
roads to exercise upon instead of this come-and-go camping. Aha, the
Cawnpore barracks were good. There was a bazaar close by and only
three hours' work a day."
- Kilpling mentions Cawnpore in a poem "Route Marchin' : "Verses
1889-1896 :
"So 'ark an' 'eed, you rookies, which is always grumblin' sore,
There's worser things than marchin' from Umballa to Cawnpore;
An' if your 'eels are blistered an' they feels to 'urt like 'ell,
You drop some tallow in your socks an' that will make 'em well.
For it's best foot first, . . .
- There is a game on CD with the battle of Cawnpore: Campaign Disk: Age of Rifles - SSI - Retail - DOS - $15. Strategic Simulations, Inc. Game : Add 3 Campaigns and 30 Scenarios to Age of Rifles. British Colonial Indian Mutiny: Participate in 7 battles of the Sepoy Rebellion, from June to December of 1857. Outnumbered British troops must fight their way to the besieged cities of Cawnpore and Lucknow.
- An English surgeon was in service in Cawnpore around 1830: Thomas Stevenson Tweedie (1784 - 1855). A listing of the main events in his life. 1830-12-06 - Name: Thomas Stevenson Tweedie. Event: Employ. Place: Cawnpore, , India. Comment: Posted to Cawnpore. Source: R. MacLeod
- In the battle of Cawnpore Sir Colin
Campbell led the
British troups:
Arguably the most famous Campbell of them all, Sir
Colin Campbell (1792-1863), commander of the Highland Brigade at
Balaclava, Commander-in-Chief during the Indian Mutiny, the hero of
Lucknow and Cawnpore, was not strictly a Campbell at all, being born
Colin MacLiver, son of a Glasgow carpenter. His mother was a
Campbell, though, and when her brother, Colonel John Campbell, took
the fifteen-year-old boy to be interviewed for the Army by the Duke
of York, the Duke wrote his name down as Campbell. And Campbell it
remained.
- HMS Shannon
and the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858. The Ships Company of Officers and
Men about to proceed to Allahabad. Captain Peel to Major-General
Mansfield, Chief of Staff : Camp, Futtehpore, November 3, 1857.
Sir,
I have the honour to lay before His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief
the details of the battle of Khujwa, with the circumstances that
preceded it.
Detachments amounting to 700 men, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Powell of HM 53rd Regiment, in charge of siege
train guns and a large convoy, were proceeding from Allahabad to
Cawnpore, and had arrived on 31st October, after a march of twelve
miles, at the camping ground of Thurrea (Thariaon). The same
afternoon intelligence was received from Futtepore that sepoy
mutineers of the Dinapore Regiment, with three guns, had passed the
Jumma with the intention of either attacking Futtehpore or crossing
over into Oude. The camp was immediately struck, and we arrived at
the camping ground of Futtehpore at midnight.
- Cawnpore.[Kanpur] On the
Ganges. Illustrated London News. November 28, 1857.
THE ENGRAVINGS. COLOURED SUPPLEMENT : CAWNPORE
"Cawnpore is situated on the west side of the Ganges-which is here
more than a mile broad, and is crossed by a bridge of boats-in lat.
26 deg. N., and long. 80 deg. E. It is a modern town, and one of the
principal military stations of the province of Allahabad. The
neighbouring gardens produce an abundance of grapes, peaches, and
other fruits and vegetables. The principal bazaars in the native
town are well supplied, and there is a great trade in leather and
cloths of every kind. The European shops, also, are numerous and
excellent. "Amongst the principal buildings is a handsome modern
Gothic Church, a Theatre, and the Assembly-rooms - lately the scene
of a dismal and revolting massacre of our fellow-countrymen. The
writer in Madden's 'Gazeteer and Gazeteer Map' says, 'Nana Sahib
appears to have experienced a malignant satisfaction in dragging a
great part of his victims to be butchered at these Assembly-rooms,
where the wretch himself had many a time and oft enjoyed the
hospitality of the English residents.' About ten miles distant by
land, on the same side of the Ganges, is Bithoor, late the residence
of this miscreant, but which has since the mutiny and massacre been
burned to the ground by the gallant Havelock. Cawnpore was in former
times the largest cantonment in upper India, but has recently and
particularly since the annexation of Oude, been shorn of its pristine
glory."
- An old book is offered for
sale:
Yalland, Zod. TRADERS AND NABOBS. The British in Cawnpore
1765-1857. Michael Russell. Wilton. 1987. 1st ed. Demy 8vo. pp 376
with numerous plates, illustrations and maps. Near fine in
dustwrapper. 45 pounds.