Cawnpore

Cawnpore, which is only three hours 'ride from Lucknow, is another city of India that recalls the saddest tragedy of the mutiny.

The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch 1888

I have before me an official statement from a mill at Cawnpore, which is said to give a fair average for the entire country.

Modern India William Eleroy Curtis 1880

Next to this house, and communicating with it by a hole in the wall, was a newly constructed defense work called the Cawnpore

In Times of Peril 1867

How could I tell Hutton to go to hell with his foul instructions - and have him bearing back to Whitehall (and Windsor and Horse Guards and Pall Mall) the shameful news that the Hector of Afghanistan, hero of Balaclava and Cawnpore, had said thank'ee but he'd rather not save Franz-Josef and the peace of Europe, if you don't mind.

Watershed 2010

I found Grey's silent scrutiny unsettling, too, and tried to turn the talk to home topics, but the lads didn't care for the great crusade against smoking, or the state of the Thames, or the Jews in Parliament; 8; 'they wanted the blood of Cawnpore and the thunder of Lucknow, and it was a relief when Grey sent them packing, and suggested we take our cigars on the veranda.

THE NUMBERS 2010

These include bills of exchange payable at British treasuries in Ferozpore for Rs. 238,4000, in Delhi for Rs. 390,000, in Agra for Rs. 200,000, and Cawnpore for Rs. 20,000.19

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Throughout his memoirs, he revels in reflected glory, the more so when it is ingloriously undeserved, and when it comes to "dining out", Harper's Ferry plainly ranks with Balaclava and Little Big Horn and Cawnpore.

THE NUMBERS 2010

I've heard 'em at Kabul before the Retreat, at Cawnpore, on the heights above the North Valley at Balaclava, and I won't swear someone wasn't croaking them as we laboured up the Greasy Grass slope. behind G.A. Custer, God rest his fat-headed soul.

Watershed 2010

Fine fevered stuff, in my best heroic style - a deathbed variation on the theme I'd used when I talked Wheeler into running up the white! lag at Cawnpore two years earlier.

THE NUMBERS 2010

The scalping was beastly, but I couldn't regret the dead Apaches, any more than Nana's people regretted us at Cawnpore.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010