Название: Cawnpore & Lucknow: A Tale of Two Sieges- Indian Mutiny
Автор: Donald Richards
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844155161
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Размер: 7,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
Following the May 1857 uprising by sepoys in Meerut and Delhi, the whole future of the British Raj was in the balance. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than at Lucknow and Cawnpore. At the latter a garrison of 240 with 375 British women and children battled to survive a siege by 3,000 mutineers led by Nana Sahib. Unimaginable horrors of artillery and sniper fire coupled with the crippling heat of the Indian summer took their toll.